From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Mar 12 19:24:53 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from smtp2.sentex.ca (smtp2.sentex.ca [199.212.134.9]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6B4D837B718; Mon, 12 Mar 2001 19:24:48 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from mike@sentex.net) Received: from chimp.simianscience.com (cage.simianscience.com [64.7.134.1]) by smtp2.sentex.ca (8.11.1/8.11.1) with SMTP id f2D3OeX84856; Mon, 12 Mar 2001 22:24:41 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from mike@sentex.net) From: Mike Tancsa To: ajh3@chmod.ath.cx (Andrew Hesford) Cc: freebsd-net@freebsd.org, questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: PPPoE Date: Mon, 12 Mar 2001 22:24:40 -0500 Message-ID: References: <021a01c0ab1f$c897c7a0$2dc67fd8@blah2> In-Reply-To: X-Mailer: Forte Agent 1.8/32.548 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On 12 Mar 2001 21:39:31 -0500, in sentex.lists.freebsd.net you wrote: >On a similar note, how stable is the PPPoE in RELENG_4? This would be >useful to know if I ever decide to drop my cable for DSL. Very. I am an admin at an ISP, and betweem the various PPPoE implementations on win32 (Enternet, RasPPPoE), standalone routers = (LinkSys, NexLan, D-Link, Netgear, Cisco, Netopia) and LINUX (RP), FreeBSD and then LINUX are the two most stable implementations. They are the only two I have seen that can reliably stay connected and reconnect no matter what = the termination reason. Generally, my box stays connected unless there is = some sort of layer one interruption, or the DSLAM reboots and I have have to re-synch. But it always comes back after that, right away on its own = which is more than I can say for the other implementations. ---Mike Mike Tancsa (mdtancsa@sentex.net) =09 Sentex Communications Corp, =09 Waterloo, Ontario, Canada "Given enough time, 100 monkeys on 100 routers=20 could setup a national IP network." (KDW2) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message