PPTP/PPPoE mpd/poptop performance

[Pawel Malachowski]

On Thu, Oct 28, 2004 at 03:38:08PM +0400, Gleb Smirnoff wrote:

> I'd suggest to choose PPPoE, not PPTP, because the latter is quite
> complicated and violated by some client implementation. You will
> not find any problems with PPPoE, since ng_pppoe is compatible with
> all known PPPoE implementations.

This is what I am currently looking at. I am considering PPTP only because
client is already available in Windows machines for free. While in XP PPPoE
is already in, I don't see free PPPoE clients for Win9x.
I am a bit worried about behaviour in lossy WiFi environments; I'll give it
a try in free time, I guess.

> 1) userland ppp, ~200 sessions, ~2Mbit/s. Under peak traffic load
>    is significant.
> 2) mpd, 10 - 50 clients (a small net). The load is almost zero.
>    Can handle wirespeed 100Mbit, with interrupt load equal to
>    load on pure Ethernet routing.

Thanks.

-- 
Paweł Małachowski