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Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.bhp.com.au!mel.dit.csiro.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.hawaii.edu!ames!agate!howland.reston.ans.net!newsfeed.internetmci.com!chi-news.cic.net!news.wctc.net!news.new-york.net!ritz.mordor.com!ritz From: ritz@ritz.mordor.com (Chris Mauritz) Subject: Re: PPP and SLIP: ISP Quality? X-Newsreader: TIN [UNIX 1.3 950824BETA PL0] Lines: 31 Organization: Mordor International Message-ID: <DM6ArF.FFx@ritz.mordor.com> References: <4eevr4$7no@news.voicenet.com> <DLvoKx.H9M@ritz.mordor.com> <4eo2p3$p5h@heathers.stdio.com> <4etodq$7e7@sophocles.algonet.se> Date: Sat, 3 Feb 1996 00:02:03 GMT Bjorn Smedman (smedman@sophocles.algonet.se) wrote: : James Risner (risner@heathers.stdio.com) wrote: : : Chris Mauritz (ritz@ritz.mordor.com) wrote: : : : 5150 (5150) wrote: : : : : : : : : people seem to be reporting lots of problems with PPP in FreeBSD. : : : : : : : : are the Linux versions any better? : : : : : : : : Anyone doing this for real uses a terminal server, not a unix : : : box. By the time you buy the proper hardware to get an Intel : : : box to be able to handle 16-32 connections, you have spent : : : more time and money than you would if you had just sprung for : : : a Portmaster. : : My ISP (the one I'm using, not running :-) is currently running 243 : (mostly) PPP/SLIP users on two sparc20's. All of those with user-space : PPP/SLIP (slirp). This seems a bit werd to me but I'm no expert... At : least it saves IP's. :-) Slirp works great over here as well. I often have 30+ slirp users and another 10-15 shell users on a P90 with 64mb RAM runninb BSDI 2.0.1. That same machine also handles our fullish newsfeed. Most of the time, according to top and systat, the cpu is 80-90% idle. The users seem to be quite happy with it. Regards, Chris -- Christopher Mauritz | For info on internet access: ritz@mordor.com | finger/mail info@ritz.mordor.com OR Mordor International | http://www.mordor.com/ 201/212/718 internet access | Modem: (201)433-7343,(212)843-3451