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From: Lev Serebryakov <lev@FreeBSD.org>
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Hello, Wojciech.
You wrote 8 =D0=BC=D0=B0=D1=80=D1=82=D0=B0 2013 =D0=B3., 20:14:59:

WP> i am not because i don't do this now, and ask BEFORE planning.
   I know ISP, who uses FreeBSD with mpd5 as BRAS for PPPoE. They uses
 ngX, not tunX, but as far as I understand, their systems has
 thousands such interfaces (~2500 per machine, like 4xCore Supermicro
 platform, nothing like Really Big Iron).

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// Black Lion AKA Lev Serebryakov <lev@FreeBSD.org>