From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Jul 25 08:19:53 2009 Return-Path: Delivered-To: questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6F955106566C for ; Sat, 25 Jul 2009 08:19:53 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from nvass9573@gmx.com) Received: from mail.gmx.com (unknown [213.165.64.42]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id BB0B28FC26 for ; Sat, 25 Jul 2009 08:19:52 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from nvass9573@gmx.com) Received: (qmail invoked by alias); 25 Jul 2009 08:19:50 -0000 Received: from unknown (EHLO [169.254.0.10]) [79.107.191.116] by mail.gmx.com (mp-eu001) with SMTP; 25 Jul 2009 10:19:50 +0200 X-Authenticated: #46156728 X-Provags-ID: V01U2FsdGVkX18nHDUWveonfJhUfJt2zQHIjRc6SDHWi69V7KlGCU Z2IBxf9t6dNPcZ Message-ID: <4A6AC006.2040507@gmx.com> Date: Sat, 25 Jul 2009 11:19:18 +0300 From: Nikos Vassiliadis User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.22 (Windows/20090605) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: questions@freebsd.org, freebsd-isp@freebsd.org, Michelle Konzack Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Y-GMX-Trusted: 0 X-FuHaFi: 0.63 Cc: Subject: PPPoE server (high traffic in WDM network) X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 25 Jul 2009 08:19:53 -0000 Hello Michelle, I think you better ask about the performance you should expect out of a PPPoE server on the mpd forum. There people on the forum with real numbers. > If I go with 1 U Sun Fire X4100M2 the Opteron has 4 Cores and 4 threads > per core (AFAIK there is a 8 threads version too) I would ask about this as well. i386? amd64? number of cores? http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?forum_id=44693 HTH, Nikos