Re: setting up a pppoe server

[Alexander <santana@geo.net.ge>]

Daniel Poulin wrote:

> Alexander wrote:
>
> > Daniel Poulin wrote:
> >
> > > Dear List,
> > >
> > > I know this might be slightly off-topic but I am working at an ISP 
> > > an we want to setup a pppoe-server to offer new services for some of 
> > > our custommers (something like a thousand).  So I started looking on 
> > > the net to find a software which I could install on a debian box and 
> > > use this box as an acces concentrator.
> > >
> > > Unfortunately the only software I've found is rp-pppoe from roaring 
> > > penguins and in the doc there is a statement saying that : 
> > > "pppoe-server is meant mainly for testing PPPoE clients.  It is not 
> > > a high-performance  server  meant  for  production use."
> > I dont know about  thousand clients , but in kernel mode it working 
> > quite fine.
> > maybe this will help you.
> > http://wrath.geoweb.ge/pppoe-server.html
> >
> > > So I was wondering if somebody could give me any pointers on what 
> > > software/hardware I should use to do that.
> > >  Kind regards,
> > > P.S. Sorry for my bad english
> Hi,
>
> Thank for the information.  May I ask with how much clients you are 
> using this ?
>
> Thanks
while only 30 :)
I could not find any other variants for linux .
there are pppoe server for freebsd , maybe it will work better .