From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Jan 10 11:23:31 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id LAA04010 for questions-outgoing; Sat, 10 Jan 1998 11:23:31 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions) Received: from ns2.cetlink.net (root@ns2.cetlink.net [209.54.54.20]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id LAA04003 for ; Sat, 10 Jan 1998 11:23:28 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jak@cetlink.net) Received: from hot1.auctionfever.com (ts1-cltnc-53.cetlink.net [209.54.58.53]) by ns2.cetlink.net (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id OAA14622; Sat, 10 Jan 1998 14:23:23 -0500 (EST) From: jak@cetlink.net (John Kelly) To: efinley@castlenet.com Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Q: which ppp to use? Date: Sat, 10 Jan 1998 20:23:58 GMT Message-ID: <34bbd7e5.4055607@mail.cetlink.net> References: <34bd281e.113348308@castlenet.com> <34b8cbd5.968492@mail.cetlink.net> <34b7c3db.1173108@castlenet.com> <34b9d48c.3198832@mail.cetlink.net> <34b9c963.2588864@castlenet.com> In-Reply-To: <34b9c963.2588864@castlenet.com> X-Mailer: Forte Agent 1.01/16.397 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-MIME-Autoconverted: from quoted-printable to 8bit by hub.freebsd.org id LAA04004 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk 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