[c-nsp] PPTP devices

[Vincent Hoffman]

masood at nexlinx.net.pk wrote:
> since all the pptp traffic gets process switched, Cisco would not meet the
> feasibility condition on Router; if i were you i will use a linux (Intel
> Core 2 Duo,4 Gig Mem) box running poptop (http://www.poptop.org/) for such
> a huge and increasing number of pptp users.
> 
Or if your more of a FreeBSD person, MPD is also a very good solution
(http://mpd.sourceforge.net/)

Vince
> Regards,
> Masood
> Blog: http://weblogs.com.pk/jahil/
> 
> 
>> I'm in the unfortunate position of having to support a bunch (100 or
>> so now, 300 or so very soon) PPTP connections.
>>
>> Right now I'm using a 3825, and based on CPU performance it looks like
>> I'll be lucky to get 200 on this thing with my typical end use usage
>> patterns.
>>
>> Cisco seems to be pretty poor with rating PPTP performance on their
>> devices, and would rather talk about L2TP (I don't blame them - it
>> appears that pptp support has been dropped from the ASAs entirely).
>>
>> Does anyone have any idea what would be a good box for 300 to 500 (or
>> even more) PPTP connections?  The old VPN3000s seem to support this,
>> but I can't get any real numbers on how many connections I can
>> realistically support.  I was thinking of just finding some powerful
>> CPU IOS boxes and calling it a day on this one.  Any better ideas?
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Daryl
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