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Date:      Tue, 23 Nov 1999 02:29:10 +0000
From:      Brian Somers <brian@Awfulhak.org>
To:        Julian Elischer <julian@whistle.com>
Cc:        David Gilbert <dgilbert@velocet.ca>, Josef Karthauser <joe@pavilion.net>, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG, brian@hak.lan.Awfulhak.org
Subject:   Re: PPPoE offer. 
Message-ID:  <199911230229.CAA08646@hak.lan.Awfulhak.org>
In-Reply-To: Message from Julian Elischer <julian@whistle.com>  of "Mon, 22 Nov 1999 16:42:29 PST." <3839E2F5.2781E494@whistle.com> 

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[.....]
> We also have patches in the works to allow full kernel bypass of 
> the ppp daemon in the common case, resulting in Mucho performance
> increase.
> 
> with the version we have now, a 100KB/sec ppp session took 6% of a
> P6-200
[.....]

CCP will kill performance.  Without it however, I've squeezed 1.5Mb 
per second (AFAIR using ppp/udp on a Mobile PII/366) out of ppp(8).

We're still on the right side of the line for regular users, but not 
by a great deal these days :-/

> Julian

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