From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Aug 26 13:53:51 2005 Return-Path: X-Original-To: questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B669D16A41F for ; Fri, 26 Aug 2005 13:53:51 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from freebsd-questions-local@be-well.ilk.org) Received: from mail25.sea5.speakeasy.net (mail25.sea5.speakeasy.net [69.17.117.27]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 630D943D45 for ; Fri, 26 Aug 2005 13:53:51 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from freebsd-questions-local@be-well.ilk.org) Received: (qmail 3626 invoked from network); 26 Aug 2005 13:53:51 -0000 Received: from dsl092-078-145.bos1.dsl.speakeasy.net (HELO be-well.ilk.org) ([66.92.78.145]) (envelope-sender ) by mail25.sea5.speakeasy.net (qmail-ldap-1.03) with SMTP for ; 26 Aug 2005 13:53:50 -0000 Received: by be-well.ilk.org (Postfix, from userid 1147) id 628A847; Fri, 26 Aug 2005 09:53:50 -0400 (EDT) Sender: lowell@be-well.ilk.org To: Ovidiu Ene References: <430B75F4.6060309@unixware.ro> <44oe7ntng4.fsf@be-well.ilk.org> <430E18C4.7080009@unixware.ro> From: Lowell Gilbert Date: 26 Aug 2005 09:53:50 -0400 In-Reply-To: <430E18C4.7080009@unixware.ro> Message-ID: <44irxs249d.fsf@be-well.ilk.org> Lines: 72 User-Agent: Gnus/5.09 (Gnus v5.9.0) Emacs/21.3 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: pppoed using mpd - dirrect connect between LAN clients X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 26 Aug 2005 13:53:51 -0000 Please don't top-post. Ovidiu Ene writes: > Yes, i'll try: > > WAN > --------------------- > | ROUTER | (also pppoe server using mpd) > ---------------------- > LAN | > switch > | | | | > user1 user2 user n > > ROUTER is a FreeBSD Box > > user 1 ... user n are windows stations connected to pppoe server (win > 98, windows 2000 or win xp) > > On the router is installed a dc++ server. > Users .... 1... to n are connected to dc++ server, they download files > from each other. > The problem is that traffic from user 1 to user 2 , or between any > user is going via LAN nic. > > If i do not use pppoe server and assign user1 .... user2 fixed ips > then the traffic in lan is direct from a user to another. The traffic > on LAN nic is not high. > So, pppoe will help in a easyer configuration of a client but traffic > in lan is via LAN nic which is bad... if are many computers it slows > down alot. > > If user 1 download from user 2 a 700 mb iso it will take only 1 minute > for a 100 mbps lan, but if pppoe is setup and many users download from > each others the traffic lows down a lot... i had experience with 300 > kbytes/s instead of 8 mbytes/s. It sounds like you are configuring the "user" hosts so that their network interfaces are PPPoE tunnels. If you don't configure them to understand the Ethernet as a subnet, they won't know how to send packets directly to each other. > Lowell Gilbert wrote: > > >Ovidiu Ene writes: > > > > > >>Hello guys > >> > >>I've setup a pppoe server using mpd and i've activated proxy arp in pppoed. > >>The problem is that all traffic between LAN users is going via pppoed NIC. > >>I do not want that, i want that LAN users to have traffic direct, like > >>using fixed IPs. > >> > >>it is possible? how? > >> > > > >Can you draw a picture of the configuration? > >I don't follow your description, and others may be having the same problem. > > > > > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" > > -- Lowell Gilbert, embedded/networking software engineer, Boston area http://be-well.ilk.org/~lowell/