From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Jan 12 14:57:51 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id OAA14689 for questions-outgoing; Mon, 12 Jan 1998 14:57:51 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions) Received: from ns1.castlenet.com (ns1.castlenet.com [209.63.23.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id OAA14679 for ; Mon, 12 Jan 1998 14:57:46 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from efinley@castlenet.com) Received: from ip27.castlenet.com (ip27.castlenet.com [209.63.23.27]) by ns1.castlenet.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id QAA15786; Mon, 12 Jan 1998 16:03:56 GMT From: efinley@castlenet.com (Elliot Finley) To: Ricardo AG Almeida Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Q: which ppp to use? Date: Mon, 12 Jan 1998 23:01:05 GMT Organization: Hiawatha Coal Company Reply-To: efinley@castlenet.com Message-ID: <34bba05d.3626091@castlenet.com> References: <3.0.32.19980111052725.009793d0@ptero.ag.com.br> In-Reply-To: <3.0.32.19980111052725.009793d0@ptero.ag.com.br> X-Mailer: Forte Agent 1.5/32.451 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-MIME-Autoconverted: from quoted-printable to 8bit by hub.freebsd.org id OAA14680 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Sun, 11 Jan 1998 05:27:27 -0200, you wrote: > > >>>>If I plan on having up to 200 simultaneous ppp dialins on a single >>>>box, which ppp would be better? pppd or user ppp? >>> >>>Neither one, because that airplane will not fly. >>> >>>32 ports per box, or perhaps 64 with the right stuff, hardware wise. >>>You will need more than one box. >> >>What is the limiting factor? Memory? Cpu power? what? >> >>My box is a Pentium II 233, with 64MB ram.... How much processing >>power and memory does a portmaster have? If I need more memory I'll >>just put more memory in it... So what IS the limiting factor? > >Supposing that you set up several 16-port serial boards, you will need 13 >free slots to get your box running... > Your math skills are excellent... How many free slots will it take if I use 64, or even 128 port cards? -- Elliot Finley (efinley@castlenet.com) President Hiawatha Coal Company