NAT and PPTP

Michael Bretterklieber mbretter at jawa.at
Tue Jul 22 23:43:05 PDT 2003


Hi,

On Tue, 22 Jul 2003, Brett Glass wrote:
> At 03:29 PM 7/22/2003, Ruslan Ermilov wrote:
>
> >Why not just use mpd?
>
> Because it's completely inadequate as a server. It needs one
> Netgraph node, and a complete configuration, for every possible
> client that might ever connect to it. And if lots of clients
> connect, it eats tons of kernel RAM.
>
> We might use mpd as a client, but not a server.
>
I got reports from people who are using 255 bundles and more, some of them
had to increase FD_SETSIZE, because they are using more then about 1024
bundles.

bye,
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