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Date:      Sat, 10 Jan 1998 20:23:58 GMT
From:      jak@cetlink.net (John Kelly)
To:        efinley@castlenet.com
Cc:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Q: which ppp to use?
Message-ID:  <34bbd7e5.4055607@mail.cetlink.net>
In-Reply-To: <34b9c963.2588864@castlenet.com>
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On Sat, 10 Jan 1998 19:20:27 GMT, efinley@castlenet.com (Elliot
Finley) wrote:

>>>>>If I plan on having up to 200 simultaneous ppp dialins on a single
>>>>>box, which ppp would be better? pppd or user ppp?
>>>>
>>>>Neither one, because that airplane will not fly.

>Well, if all my ports are hanging off of the PCI Busmastering host, I
>don't see any problem with I/O Bandwidth...  Isn't a 66 MHZ PCI bus
>capable of something like 33MB/Sec.?  That should be plenty...

I don't think so, but please post your results when you have them.  

As for the original question about which ppp to use, Brian says user
ppp is faster in 2.2.X, but I use kernel pppd.


John








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