Laurent Salle wrote: > Richard P. Koett wrote: >> I'm setting up a Soekris net4801-50 (128 Mb RAM) for use as a >> firewall. For storage it has a 40Gb IDE drive rather than compact >> flash. For my first attempt I used a generic install of OpenBSD 3.9. >> The user complained that Internet access seemed slow, however. I'm >> planning to try again using a custom kernel based on the config file >> included with Chris Cappuccio's Flashdist installer. (A copy is >> provided below for reference). Is this a good idea? > > Are you using PPPOE in your setup ? It may be the culprit of your bad > performance. > > I've setup 4 Soekris 4501 boxes as routers for small offices with an > ADSL link to the Internet. > > For one of this installations, the ADSL link speed was above 1 Mb/s > (8Mb/s), and when using the userland PPPOE the CPU load was around 75% > and the available bandwith was poor. After modifying the configuration > to use the kernel PPPOE instead, the CPU load and the available > bandwith became normal. > > With ADSL links at 512kb/s I've not seen any difference in CPU load or > throughputs between userland and kernel PPPOE. > > I've always used unmodified OpenBSD kernel with Soekris boxes. > > See: > Kernel PPPOE: > http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=pppoe&sektion=4 > > Userland PPPOE: > http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=pppoe&&sektion=8
Laurent: I'm not using PPPoE but I appreciate the information. I've decided to stick with a generic kernel also. Thanks, RPK.
