Date: Mon, 04 Oct 1999 21:45:32 -0400 From: "Louis A. Mamakos" <louie@TransSys.COM> To: David Gilbert <dgilbert@velocet.ca> Cc: Julian Elischer <julian@whistle.com>, Brian Somers <brian@Awfulhak.org>, Wes Peters <wes@softweyr.com>, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: PPPoE offer. Message-ID: <199910050145.VAA26402@whizzo.transsys.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Mon, 04 Oct 1999 08:18:38 EDT." <14328.39710.398385.552396@trooper.velocet.net> References: <199910040621.HAA00486@hak.lan.Awfulhak.org> <Pine.BSF.4.05.9910032348050.47259-100000@home.elischer.org> <14328.39710.398385.552396@trooper.velocet.net>
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> [on PPPoE] > > Well... a few toronto people and I got together (I'm trying to find > email addresses) to discuss the problem. One particular thought that > we had was that it would be cool if a single ppp process could handle > a large number of connections. We also discussed the fact that you > may very well want some low-level routing of the PPPoE packets. > > The cost model with our telco (at least) is that each ethernet > connection costs $1500/mo. So... we need to be able to run somewhere > around 5K to 10K connections (users) down each pipe. This means that > a box on the front end to "route" the packets to multiple boxes is an > asset. So just use an Ethernet bridge. You could play some games with the discovery protocol (which uses broadcast MAC frames) with multiple servers are the remote end. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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