[pptp-server] PPTP with PPP in sync mode problem
Sang Yu
sangadsl at kornet.net
Thu Aug 8 23:41:15 CDT 2002
Thanks you for your prompt response to this matter.
Generally speaking, Using the sync option can reduce pppd's CPU utilization
to about 1/4 and get more performance that async PPP like as PPPoE.
Thanks,
Sang
----- Original Message -----
From: "James Cameron" <james.cameron at hp.com>
To: "Sang Yu" <sangadsl at kornet.net>
Cc: <pptp-server at lists.schulte.org>
Sent: Friday, August 09, 2002 1:04 PM
Subject: Re: [pptp-server] PPTP with PPP in sync mode problem
> On Fri, 2002-08-09 at 13:42, Sang Yu wrote:
> > - Any version ppp with sync option does not pass pptp GRE packets and
> > disconnected with an error LCP: timeout sending Config-Requests but
> > async ppp works well.
>
> Don't use sync.
>
> The PPTP server presumable has to do what the PPTP client does, which is
> re-encapsulate from asynchronous HDLC to GRE and vice-versa. Last I
> checked, it doesn't handle sync.
>
> Why would you want to use synchronous HDLC serial encoding?
>
> --
> James Cameron (james.cameron at hp.com)
>
> http://quozl.linux.org.au/ (or) http://quozl.netrek.org/
>
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