[plug] PPPoE tuning

[Tomasz Grzegurzko]

Are you sure its actually running in kernel mode and not user mode?
rp-pppoe takes a bit of work to get running in kernel mode; I didn't see any
difference once I got it going in kernel space (but I'm on 256/64).

Tomasz

Quoting Bernd Felsche <bernie at innovative.iinet.net.au>:

> 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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