Date: Thu, 28 Oct 2004 18:48:46 +0300 From: Iasen Kostov <tbyte@OTEL.net> To: Pawel Malachowski <pawmal-posting@freebsd.lublin.pl> Cc: freebsd-net@freebsd.org Subject: Re: PPTP/PPPoE mpd/poptop performance Message-ID: <418114DE.6000600@OTEL.net> In-Reply-To: <20041028131316.GA73157@shellma.zin.lublin.pl> References: <20041026153108.GA91134@shellma.zin.lublin.pl> <20041028113808.GB50262@cell.sick.ru> <20041028131316.GA73157@shellma.zin.lublin.pl>
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Pawel Malachowski wrote:
>On Thu, Oct 28, 2004 at 03:38:08PM +0400, Gleb Smirnoff wrote:
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>>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.
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>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.
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I use them both(PPTP and PPPoE) on every machine serving as access
concentrator - and leave decision of "what to use" to the client side :).
(btw there are PPPoE clients for win98 - RASPPPoE it was I think).
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