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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.mel.connect.com.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!fizban.solace.mh.se!vampire.xinit.se!newsfeed.tip.net!news.algonet.se!not-for-mail From: smedman@sophocles.algonet.se (Bjorn Smedman) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: PPP and SLIP: ISP Quality? Date: 2 Feb 1996 20:24:42 +0100 Organization: AlgoNet Public Access Node, Stockholm Lines: 22 Message-ID: <4etodq$7e7@sophocles.algonet.se> References: <4eevr4$7no@news.voicenet.com> <DLvoKx.H9M@ritz.mordor.com> <4eo2p3$p5h@heathers.stdio.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: sophocles.algonet.se X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] 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. :-) -- Bjorn Smedman, smedman@algonet.se, http://www.algonet.se/~smedman. "UNIX IS user-friendly, it's just selective about who it's friends with!"