Date: Thu, 28 Oct 2004 15:13:16 +0200 From: Pawel Malachowski <pawmal-posting@freebsd.lublin.pl> To: freebsd-net@freebsd.org Subject: Re: PPTP/PPPoE mpd/poptop performance Message-ID: <20041028131316.GA73157@shellma.zin.lublin.pl> In-Reply-To: <20041028113808.GB50262@cell.sick.ru> References: <20041026153108.GA91134@shellma.zin.lublin.pl> <20041028113808.GB50262@cell.sick.ru>
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On Thu, Oct 28, 2004 at 03:38:08PM +0400, Gleb Smirnoff wrote: > I'd suggest to choose PPPoE, not PPTP, because the latter is quite > complicated and violated by some client implementation. You will > not find any problems with PPPoE, since ng_pppoe is compatible with > all known PPPoE implementations. This is what I am currently looking at. I am considering PPTP only because client is already available in Windows machines for free. While in XP PPPoE is already in, I don't see free PPPoE clients for Win9x. I am a bit worried about behaviour in lossy WiFi environments; I'll give it a try in free time, I guess. > 1) userland ppp, ~200 sessions, ~2Mbit/s. Under peak traffic load > is significant. > 2) mpd, 10 - 50 clients (a small net). The load is almost zero. > Can handle wirespeed 100Mbit, with interrupt load equal to > load on pure Ethernet routing. Thanks. -- Paweł Małachowski
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