* Bryan Fullerton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [010703 00:12] wrote:
> At 11:54 PM -0500 7/2/01, Alfred Perlstein wrote:
> > > If you really think switching to a better ethernet card will help, I
> > > have a 3C905B sitting here that I can try.
> >
> >It may.
>
> Ok, I'll try that tomorrow then. Perhaps the varying cruft levels in
> ed(4) vs xl(4), or ISA vs PCI architecture, will help. :)
A boatload. :) ISA is _really_ slow. :)
>
> > > Nope, ppp -nat, no natd.
> >
> >Same difference, ppp is implemented as a userland process, nearly the
> >same amount of work must be done for either natd or ppp.
>
> Well, I certainly can't get around needing NAT. Would it really add
> that much overhead in processing? I only have three active machines
> on the private network, though I do have 10 port forwarding rules as
> well.
PPP runs as a userland process, with or without NAT it requires
copying of data as well as system call overhead to process packets.
Latency sucks, but as long as you're getting the just about the
full bandwidth of your pipe, it shouldn't make much of a difference,
unless you're a gamer that is, you're not a gamer are you? >;)
--
-Alfred Perlstein [[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Ok, who wrote this damn function called '??'?
And why do my programs keep crashing in it?
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