On 12/07/2016 14:15, Jody Botham wrote: > > On Tue, Jul 12, 2016 at 1:59 PM, Tom Smyth <tom.sm...@wirelessconnect.eu > <mailto:tom.sm...@wirelessconnect.eu>> wrote: > > a Mikrotik ROS system running on x86 Harware is hard to beat for > price and scale that you are talking about, we have a client running > PPPoE in Germanny with 5K clients per MT PPPoE Service Router... > works well, > > > I can second RouterOS. If you put multiple of them in you can get > rudimentary load balancing too that works pretty well in practice. You > can do dynamic rate limiting, routed subnets etc. via RADIUS.
Also take a look at mpd on FreeBSD. It will however be a lot more work to iron out a working config than RouterOS. Rich.