Date: Mon, 2 Jul 2001 23:54:34 -0500 From: Alfred Perlstein <bright@sneakerz.org> To: Bryan Fullerton <bjf@samurai.com> Cc: net@freebsd.org Subject: Re: PPPoE latency Message-ID: <20010702235434.B84523@sneakerz.org> In-Reply-To: <f05101001b766fe1f011f@[192.168.1.34]>; from bjf@samurai.com on Tue, Jul 03, 2001 at 12:50:03AM -0400 References: <f05101003b766f52ce823@[192.168.1.34]> <20010702233606.A84523@sneakerz.org> <f05101001b766fe1f011f@[192.168.1.34]>
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* Bryan Fullerton <bjf@samurai.com> [010702 23:50] wrote: > At 11:36 PM -0500 7/2/01, Alfred Perlstein wrote: > > > >Without a real idea of what's in the dedicated equipment it's hard > >to say. A couple things about your configuration really say > >"low-end" equipment, especially the NIC being used. > > It's absolutely not high-end stuff, but this is only a residential > 1Mb/120Kb DSL line, shouldn't really be taxing the NIC. If there's > anything else about the config you'd like to know, I'd be happy to > provide details. > > If you really think switching to a better ethernet card will help, I > have a 3C905B sitting here that I can try. It may. > >There's also > >the possibility that if you're using NAT you're using NATd which > >because of the way it works (userland process that must double copy > >all packets) you're not getting the best performance from that as > >well. > > Nope, ppp -nat, no natd. Same difference, ppp is implemented as a userland process, nearly the same amount of work must be done for either natd or ppp. -- -Alfred Perlstein [alfred@freebsd.org] Ok, who wrote this damn function called '??'? And why do my programs keep crashing in it? To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-net" in the body of the message
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