PPPoE

[Alen Sarkinovic]

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "ovidiu" <ovidiue at unixware.ro>
To: "Alen Sarkinovic" <alen at smartnet.ba>
Sent: Sunday, April 16, 2006 2:15 AM
Subject: Re: PPPoE


> Alen Sarkinovic wrote:
>
> >I'm running FreeBSD 5.4 on HP DL380 2xXeon 3.2GHz with 2GB DDR2  with 600
> >users simultaneous connections and traffic in/out about 20Mb on Ethernet
GB
> >card.
> >
> >Load averages: 4.54 max in peak time.
> >
> >Regarding my privies experience with slower machine system can handle all
> >request without any problems with
> >max load avr: 12.00
> >
> >----- Original Message ----- 
> >From: "Farhad" <farhad.i at caspel.com>
> >To: <freebsd-isp at freebsd.org>
> >Sent: Saturday, April 15, 2006 7:59 PM
> >Subject: PPPoE
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >>How many simulative session can support PPPoE server.
> >>
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> Hello
>
> I have few questions:
>
> I am using mpd pppoe server with 400 simultaneous connections, on a P IV
> at 3 Ghz, 1 GB ram, I have 20% cpu usage on peak.
>
> I've purchased a Xeon server (with one CPU, but the motherboard is dual
> Xeon) at 3 Ghz with 4 GB RAM.
>
> My question should I purchase another CPU to use dual function (SMP)? It
> will help me with mpd?

Yes it will help!


> Another question: what ISO you use: freebsd 5.4 i386 or amd64 ?
>

I'm using i386 !

> (The amd64 is on 64 bits, that should help to increase the speed of
> FreeBSD server, but I was not able to use amd64 iso because it stop
> booting when detecting the onboard RAID controller.)

You can check this and eventualy report to
http://www.freebsd.org/platforms/amd64.html


> And last question: what traffic shaping you use? I use pf with HFSC
> algorithm wich works fine for hundreads of queues but is not good for
> thousands, because is a linear algorithm.
>
> If you do not use pf HFSC, but pf with CBQ or  PRIQ or ipfw with
> dummynet, please tell me how do you succeed to have QoS. For example I
> need to have different pppoe connections with different speeds,
> guarantee bandwidth.

> I am looking for a long time for proper setting, i think Linux's HTB is
> better but I want to use FreeBSD.

I'm using pppoed on cable network and traffic shaping & QoS  was a part of
Dosis standard.
But IPFW is great solution, you can check WARTA on
http://www.hpi.net/whitepapers/warta/


> Thank You
> Best Regards,
> Ovidiu
>
>