From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed Jan 10 15:37:13 1996 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id PAA12867 for hackers-outgoing; Wed, 10 Jan 1996 15:37:13 -0800 (PST) Received: from ibp.ibp.fr (ibp.ibp.fr [132.227.60.30]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with ESMTP id PAA12849 for ; Wed, 10 Jan 1996 15:36:58 -0800 (PST) Received: from blaise.ibp.fr (blaise.ibp.fr [132.227.60.1]) by ibp.ibp.fr (8.6.12/jtpda-5.0) with ESMTP id AAA16623 ; Thu, 11 Jan 1996 00:36:49 +0100 Received: from (uucp@localhost) by blaise.ibp.fr (8.6.12/jtpda-5.0) with UUCP id AAA01470 ; Thu, 11 Jan 1996 00:36:48 +0100 Received: (pb@localhost) by fasterix.frmug.fr.net (8.6.11/fasterix-941011) id AAA26478; Thu, 11 Jan 1996 00:33:51 +0100 From: Pierre Beyssac Message-Id: <199601102333.AAA26478@fasterix.frmug.fr.net> Subject: Re: pppd vs ijppp To: jerry@border.com (Jerry Kendall) Date: Thu, 11 Jan 1996 00:33:50 +0100 (MET) Cc: nate@rocky.sri.MT.net, dennis@etinc.com, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: <96Jan10.135034est.20483@janus.border.com> from "Jerry Kendall" at Jan 10, 96 01:47:44 pm X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL23] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: owner-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk Jerry Kendall writes: > 3)That is like saying TCP does not belong in the kernel. Not exactly. That's more like saying inetd and telnetd do not belong in the kernel :-) > Getting 10% better throughput will cut down the amount of time 'joe user' > takes to get the files/info he needs, cut down the amount of time *other* > users have to wait, the faster your PPP subsystem can receive the info, Generally the modem, not the CPU, is the bottleneck. At typical dialup speeds, using user- or kernel-ppp makes absolutely no difference if you don't have 20 lines. -- Pierre Beyssac pb@fasterix.frmug.fr.net pb@fasterix.freenix.fr {Free,Net,Open}BSD, Linux : il y a moins bien, mais c'est plus cher