On Tue, Jun 25, 2002 at 10:18:06AM -0400, Robert F Schaefer wrote:
> > On Tue, Jun 25, 2002 at 07:13:12AM -0400, Robert Schaefer wrote:
> > 
> > Read
> > 
> > http://netbsd.org/Documentation/network/pppoe/
> > 
> > and that should explane how to use kernel land PPPoE. You'll need 1.5Z
> > or newer kernel.
> 
> Is one kernel preferred over another?  I haven't kept track 'em, but I 
> don't want to get bit with a bug that everyone else knows about.

Go with a 1.6_BETA snapshot. That's what I'm running, and it works fine.

> 
> > 
> > And for PPPoE you need fast machine. My friend have 10/10Mbps DSL
> > connection with PPPoE and 120MHz Pentium doing routing and it isn't
> > fast enough (it's linux.. ;).
> 
> This is bad news.  I've got to route 2-3 boxes throught the connection, and 

With the in-kernel pppoe, cpu usage is much less. My router is a sparc IPC
(25 Mhz CPU), and ay 512Mb/s it use only 20% CPU.

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Manuel Bouyer <bouyer@antioche.eu.org>
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