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Date:      Fri, 04 Feb 2000 09:23:03 +0000
From:      Brian Somers <brian@Awfulhak.org>
To:        Haider Roland <r.haider@liwest.at>
Cc:        "'freebsd-isp@freebsd.org'" <freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG>, brian@hak.lan.Awfulhak.org
Subject:   Re: PPP over Ethernet, the Server-Side? 
Message-ID:  <200002040923.JAA03548@hak.lan.Awfulhak.org>
In-Reply-To: Message from Haider Roland <r.haider@liwest.at>  of "Thu, 03 Feb 2000 10:24:40 %2B0100." <1F879C64A1A7D211B0F10004AC4C07FC119CDF@OFFICE1_LIWEST> 

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> Hi,
> we are a xDSL provider, that is granting its customers
> the luxury of manualy entered static IP-addresses.
> 
> However administrating static routes is impossibile and
> dynamic is a problem due to abuse.
> In many cases only because of the incompetence of
> "network-consultants" our customers hire.
> 
> So to reduce troubleshooting time we want to implement
> some authentication system.
> Therefore the question:
> Has anybody expirience with such a configuration
> and is willing to share it with me?

No - I'm afraid I've no practical experience anyway.

> What software/hardware for PPPoE is capeable of 
> handling full FastEthernet speed?

ppp(8) w/ netgraph(4) is available in -stable and -current.  I'm not 
sure what you man by fast ethernet though.  It can easily handle 
10Mbit, but I'd estimate you'll only manage about 60Mbits tops with 
user-ppp on a 700Mhz machine without compression (although of course 
your throughput should multiply linearly if you use SMP).  This will 
increase somewhat when I (finally) squeeze more of ppp(8) into the 
kernel, but then I'll be faced with the problem of what to call it... 
user-ppp will be just wrong :-(

> Thanks in advance,
> 
> Roland

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Brian <brian@Awfulhak.org>                        <brian@FreeBSD.org>
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