On 22/04/06, Daniel Walrond <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> On Fri, Apr 21, 2006 at 02:30:00PM +0200, Jonathan Thornburg wrote:
> > I already have the (external) DSL modem, and from talking to other
> > Unix-savvy customers of my ISP (arcor.de), their setup is that the
> > DSL modem talks pppoe to me (in this case to my firewall/router/nat
> > box). From looking at the FAQ section 6, it seems I have two basic
> > options available doing this in OpenBSD: pppoe(4) in the kernal, and
> > pppoe(8) in userland. My question is, what are the relative
> > advantages/disadvantages of these?
>
> I've used pppoe(4) since 3.8, and I've never had an issues with it. It's
> been really stable and seems to be more reliable than any hardware ADSL
> router I've use. Looks like you're planning the same setup as I have.
>
> I can't comment at 6Mbit line speeds via the pppoe device. I do know
> that with a realtek network card it seems to top the CPU out with
> interupt at about 22Mbit of internal traffic.
>
> Dan
>
>
I've used pppoe(4) for a few months now. It works well and the config is as
easy
as it gets, man 4 pppoe.
The only issues I've seen is that it seems to ignore PADT and that MTU
doesn't seem
to correlate with the remote end MRU received during LCP neg. But since it
works
so well I haven't bothered with looking closer at it.
No idea about performance though, my almighty 2272/288 kbps line isn't
really enough
to make my firewall break a sweat.
/Tony
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Tony Sarendal - [EMAIL PROTECTED]
IP/Unix
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