Re: Performance of PPPOE in FreeBSD

In reply to: driesm.michiels_a_gmail.com: "Performance of PPPOE in FreeBSD"
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From: Julien Cigar <julien_at_perdition.city>
Date: Mon, 20 Sep 2021 19:46:18 UTC

On Mon, Sep 20, 2021 at 09:32:22PM +0200, driesm.michiels@gmail.com wrote:
> Hi net mailing list,

Hi Dries,

> 
>  
> 
> Currently at my parrents house we have just a cable modem where I use DHCPv6
> and DHCP to get a IPv6 prefix and IPv4 address respectivelly.
> 
> For this config everything is done in the kernel regarding routing. The ISP
> is Telenet and they give me 300 down / 20 up (mbps).
> 
>  
> 
> But I really want a higher upload in my future appartment where I will be
> moving is *soonTm*.
> 
> So looking for ISP's in Belgium, Proximus seems to provide a fibre plan (if
> fibre is available, but it should be) that does 500 down / 50 up (mbps). 
> 
> They use PPPOE and was wondering what the max troughput looks like with the
> in-base PPPOE client?
> 

On my small APU2C4 box the in-base PPPOE client used 100% CPU, I
strongly suggest to switch to mpd5 (which use < 1% CPU on the same
hardware)

> I have also found some mentions of net/mpd5, is this a better
> implementation?
> 

yes! mpd5 is almost mandatory nowadays for PPPOE

>  
> 
> Thanks
> 
> Dries
> 

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