[pptp-server] Maximum PPTP Connections?

[Nate Carlson]

On Wed, 8 Mar 2000, Johnny L Wales wrote:
> At any rate, these machines are routinely handling several thousand open
> descriptors with no problem. The kernel is modified to allow 2048
> children, and 2048 descriptors-per-process, and nothing seems to have
> blown up yet (4 months of uptime...), so I suppose it's safe enough. And,
> we have half the power of the unholy beast you're talking about building.
> Plus, we're just doing web and mail serving, which is relatively complex
> (at a processor level) compared to pptp connections (far as I know,
> anyway).

Thing I'm worried about is the load encryption for large amounts of
traffic would place on the CPU.. or is this minimal?

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