Unfourtunatly from my tests a 486DX4-100 is the minium speed CPU needed for PPPoE if your bandwidth is the standard 1.5mbit down/ 128kbit up and even with this CPU you will see your bandwidth go down the toilet with more clients behind the LEAF box. Obviously if you have a slower line then you dont need that kind of power, say a 486sx25 if you have a 768k down/??k up. The newer Roaring Penguin PPPoE clients might be less CPU intensive but unfourtunatly you need Glibc 2.2 to compile it, and ive found no way around this (Hint: If someone can prove me wrong I would be most gratefull) which has kinda halted images from me till Dachstein is released.
-Kenneth Hadley ----- Original Message ----- From: "Robert Chambers" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "leaf-user" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Sunday, October 14, 2001 12:42 AM Subject: Re: [Leaf-user] Hardware requirements ;-) > Yes there is a limit on how slow of a processor one can use with an LRP. > I am using Eigerstien2beta pppoe beta v.0.4 from Kenneth Hadley on a > 386 DX board running a Cyrix 486 DLC 40 mhz chip and the PPPoE is > limited to about 500kbps down load. The speed limit has to do with the > way pppoe sends the packets, the processor must recombine them. Also > according to Ken Hadley on anything less than a 486 DX4 100mhz you will > notice a speed dive with PPPoE. > Robert Chambers > > Jeff Newmiller wrote: > > >On Sat, 13 Oct 2001, Mark Plowman wrote: > > > >>I have recently been encouraging my less Linux-centric colleagues to > >>use LEAF as a fire-wall for their personal dial-up/cable/ADSL Internet > >>connections, having done the same with the company ISDN and ADSL > >>connections. > >> > >>Yesterday the trainee expressed interest, explained that he had cable > >>access and asked about the hardware requirements. I explained that > >>almost anything he could lay his hands on would be sufficient and he > >>then asked "but wouldn't that (a 386) perform *too* slowly?". I > >>reassured him that that would be OK and sent him off after an > >>introductory talk about LEAF with both an Eigerstien and a Dachstein > >>floppy. > >> > >>Once at home I decided to put my "money where my mouth was" and > >>*downgraded* my 486 DX2-80 with a 386 SX-33! I had to (of course) > >>replace the kernel on my ISDN Eigerstien with a non-FPU example, but > >>it all works a treat! What I do notice is that during start-up the > >>unpacking of the Linux Kernel and initial ram disk images take an > >>*age*! > >> > > > >I found that there is a lower limit... the performance of a 386-33 > >on a pppoe setup was significantly lower than no router. However, for > >static routing it should be okay, and almost any true 486 should keep up > >with pppoe. > > > >--------------------------------------------------------------------------- > >Jeff Newmiller The ..... ..... Go Live... > >DCN:<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Basics: ##.#. ##.#. Live Go... > > Live: OO#.. Dead: OO#.. Playing > >Research Engineer (Solar/Batteries O.O#. #.O#. with > >/Software/Embedded Controllers) .OO#. .OO#. rocks...2k > >--------------------------------------------------------------------------- > > > > > >_______________________________________________ > >Leaf-user mailing list > >[EMAIL PROTECTED] > >https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/leaf-user > > > > > > _______________________________________________ Leaf-user mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/leaf-user
