Subject: Re: more newbie questions
To: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?R=E9mi_Zara?= <remi_zara@mac.com>
From: Richard UNGER <runger@cs.mcgill.ca>
List: port-mac68k
Date: 01/30/2002 15:51:49
Hiya!

I'm getting closer to 60K (sometimes two streams of about 40K) with the
user space pptp (similar to pppoe). Two interfaces though.

Richie


On Wed, 30 Jan 2002, [ISO-8859-1] R=E9mi Zara wrote:

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> Le mercredi 30 janvier 2002, =E0 06:33 , til a =E9crit :
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> > pppoe and NAT works with one NIC (the farallon card as /dev/ae0)
> > Unfortunately i am getting low transfer rates (max 35-40k / sec) on my =
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> > 768kbit dsl line which should be about 70-80k/s. Does anyone know if=20
> > this is caused by using only one network adapter or is a quadra 700 too=
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> > slow to get more throughput ? Or might re-compiling a new kernel help ?
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> I guess you use rp-pppoe, or some other userland package. You're in fact=
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> You will most certainly max out your connection with in-kernel pppoe=20
> which is available in -current.
> I don't know if your machine is supported in -current, but if you=20
> haven't yet, you should give it a try.
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> Regards,
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> R=E9mi
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> --
> R=E9mi Zara
> web: http://www.remi-zara.net/
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