Date: Tue, 3 Jul 2001 01:11:49 -0400 From: Bryan Fullerton <bjf@samurai.com> To: Alfred Perlstein <bright@sneakerz.org> Cc: net@freebsd.org Subject: Re: PPPoE latency Message-ID: <f05101000b767029b0e42@[192.168.1.34]> In-Reply-To: <20010702235434.B84523@sneakerz.org> References: <f05101003b766f52ce823@[192.168.1.34]> <20010702233606.A84523@sneakerz.org> <f05101001b766fe1f011f@[192.168.1.34]> <20010702235434.B84523@sneakerz.org>
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At 11:54 PM -0500 7/2/01, Alfred Perlstein wrote: > > If you really think switching to a better ethernet card will help, I > > have a 3C905B sitting here that I can try. > >It may. Ok, I'll try that tomorrow then. Perhaps the varying cruft levels in ed(4) vs xl(4), or ISA vs PCI architecture, will help. :) > > 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. Well, I certainly can't get around needing NAT. Would it really add that much overhead in processing? I only have three active machines on the private network, though I do have 10 port forwarding rules as well. ppp is a busy little process on this machine, but it's not eating that much CPU percentage wise (maybe 5-10% during peak bandwidth usage). root 115 0.0 0.9 2524 544 ?? Ss 24Jun01 228:03.06 /usr/sbin/ppp -quiet -background -nat hse I do download a bit. :) 03000 55837770 52756978271 allow tcp from any to any established Bryan -- Bryan Fullerton http://bryanfullerton.com/ Core Competence uunet.ca!gts!cspace!bjf Samurai Consulting Can you feel the Ohmu call? To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-net" in the body of the message
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