Chris Cappuccio wrote:
Nick Holland [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Not really.
However a 2Mbps DSL line is not the fastest out there... a friend of
mine is griping about his 200MHz PPro (which will probably run circles
around the 4801) being unable to keep up with his 6Mbps DSL line with
PPPoE. I haven't investigated personally, but I've got some reason to
not ignore his warnings. A few other people have run into problems with
PPPoE on hardware that would have giggled at a simple Ethernet
connection, so throwing underpowered hardware at a DSL line would not be
my first choice.
Weren't these types of issues solved by the in-kernel PPPoE?
I've been informed that's the case.
I've also since found out the friend who was griping about his PPro and
PPPoE wasn't even running OpenBSD. (oops! Gotta pick my friends better!).
So..disregard that part of my comments.
The thing could still be a frustrating "first OpenBSD system" for
someone. It's a great machine for what it is...but not as a "Welcome to
OpenBSD" system. My overall recommendation stands. Get used to OpenBSD
on familiar hardware, then get used to unusual hardware with an OS you
are familiar with (preferably, OpenBSD. :)
Nick.
