On 09.10.01, 00:03:32, Simon Burge wrote:
> Alicia da Conceicao wrote:
> 
> > After all of this discussion regarding PPPoE, I would appreciate
> > knowing the following:
> > 
> > Which is better on NetBSD ix86:
> > 
> > 	net/rp-pppoe (Roaring Penguin's PPPoE)
> > 	net/mouse-pppoe (derMouse's PPPoE)
> > 
> > Both NetBSD packages do PPPoE, but rp-pppoe is much larger than
> > mouse-pppoe, and my Linux friends tell me that rp-pppoe uses up
> > a lot of server resources when it is in use.  mouse-pppoe only
> > has a single program file, as opposed to the numerous files in
> > rp-pppoe; does this limit its functionality in anyway?
> 
> I'm using rp-pppoe.  The main reason I chose that over mouse-pppoe
> was because it came with documentation :-).  It's dead easy to set
> up and has been working flawlessly for ~6 months.
> 
> As to resource usage, it works fine on my 16MB P100 firewall.  The
> total resident size of all ppp-related processes totals around 1MB.
> It currently has ~2.5MB of free memory (this is a 1.5.x box).

I've also installed rp-pppoe on two systems, and it does in fact use a
lot of CPU power when in use. A 100MHz AMD 486 is just fast enough,
and at full throughput uses about 50% CPU time. I have not tried
mouse-pppoe, but chose rp-pppoe instead for the same reason. It is
very well documented and very easy to set up.

> 
> Simon.
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> Simon Burge                            <simonb@wasabisystems.com>
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