Date: Mon, 22 Nov 1999 21:24:07 -0500 (EST) From: David Gilbert <dgilbert@velocet.ca> To: Julian Elischer <julian@whistle.com> Cc: David Gilbert <dgilbert@velocet.ca>, Josef Karthauser <joe@pavilion.net>, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: PPPoE offer. Message-ID: <14393.64199.189042.641286@trooper.velocet.net> In-Reply-To: <3839E2F5.2781E494@whistle.com> References: <14322.15597.505566.676863@trooper.velocet.ca> <19990929211210.H86792@florence.pavilion.net> <14322.30121.178080.621999@trooper.velocet.ca> <3839E2F5.2781E494@whistle.com>
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>>>>> "Julian" == Julian Elischer <julian@whistle.com> writes: Julian> (the other end was a 486DX50 :-) with enough RAM we could Julian> probably serve 10K sessions, though that would require 10K ppp Julian> daemons until we got the kernel bypass working. in either Julian> case it would presently leave a HUGE ifconfig -a output as Julian> there would be 10000 intefeaces, each representing a channel Julian> to a client. It migh tbe worth wondering if we need to Julian> abstract a 'class of PVCs' type device that feeds to some othe Julian> rway of splitting them. (we can do this with netgraph pretty Julian> easily.) (is it worth doing?) I'd be willing to fund that experiment. It's possible we should meet either virtually or in person. Dave. -- ============================================================================ |David Gilbert, Velocet Communications. | Two things can only be | |Mail: dgilbert@velocet.net | equal if and only if they | |http://www.velocet.net/~dgilbert | are precisely opposite. | =========================================================GLO================ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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