[plug] PPPoE tuning

[Bernd Felsche]

I've recently connected to ADSL2+. My newer firewall is a Pentium
MMX @ 200MHz with "minimal" SuSE 10.0 and shiny new kernel installed.

The firewall is running rp-pppoe and it's maxed out on CPU at about
14,000 kbps.  Most of the CPU usage is in kernel mode so it's
obviously doing important stuff in the ppp module.

Is there any obvious tuning that I could be doing?

The modem's not going very much faster so I could live with a few
percent of bandwidth loss instead of buying new hardware.

I did some test downloads from iiNet's ftp server and one came in at
30 megabytes/second... I'd forgotten about my generous squid cache.
:-)
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