From owner-freebsd-hackers Mon Oct 4 18:45:55 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from whizzo.transsys.com (whizzo.TransSys.COM [144.202.42.10]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0418314C93 for ; Mon, 4 Oct 1999 18:45:51 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from louie@whizzo.transsys.com) Received: from whizzo.transsys.com (localhost.transsys.com [127.0.0.1]) by whizzo.transsys.com (8.9.3/8.9.1) with ESMTP id VAA26402; Mon, 4 Oct 1999 21:45:32 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from louie@whizzo.transsys.com) Message-Id: <199910050145.VAA26402@whizzo.transsys.com> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.0.2 2/24/98 To: David Gilbert Cc: Julian Elischer , Brian Somers , Wes Peters , freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG From: "Louis A. Mamakos" Subject: Re: PPPoE offer. References: <199910040621.HAA00486@hak.lan.Awfulhak.org> <14328.39710.398385.552396@trooper.velocet.net> In-reply-to: Your message of "Mon, 04 Oct 1999 08:18:38 EDT." <14328.39710.398385.552396@trooper.velocet.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Mon, 04 Oct 1999 21:45:32 -0400 Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > [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