[RP-PPPoE] installation guide

[Ananthnag Bonthala R.]

Hello Mike,

Thanks for your reply. Since I want to use it in production environment I
think it is better to go for Appliance based. Can u just guide me briefly so
that I can google and try my best to build a appliance based PPPoE server.
Thank you once again.

Regards,
Ananth

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Sent: Thursday,11 November , 2010 10:54 PM
To: For users of RP-PPPoE client/server software
Subject: Re: [RP-PPPoE] installation guide

Ananthnag Bonthala R. wrote:
> Dear team,
>
> I m planning to install a PPPOE server for my ISP network for testing I
have
> around 1200 online clients . I need a good how to guide for building a
PPPOE
> server can anyone send me the helpful links.
>
> Thanks in advance.
>   

Well, building a PPPoE server is pretty open. You can download and 
install one of the many linux distributions which include pppd and 
rp-pppoe and there you go. BUT - if you want to build a server that has 
features and more importantly, will stand up and continue serving for 
years without interruption... well, that's a slightly different beast. 
No machine based on  desktop oriented distributions and with hard drives 
and with a writable filesystem will deliver that to you, because storage 
will eventually fail. Or fill up. Or develop errors. Or any other of a 
list of things that can and do occur. Documenting the process of how to 
build an appliance, which is what you really want, is quite a lot of 
work too. The difference is that an appliance is focused on one job and 
is not trying to be your pppoe server slash coffee maker slash warcraft 
game station. The issue is that sometimes (a lot of times, actually), 
different workloads are just incompatible with oneanother for a variety 
of reasons, and so distilling the job of the appliance down to the 
absolute bare minimum necessary for that specfic task, results in 
performance and long term stability that would not be achieved in a 
mixed use environment.

I think it would be much more productive if there were a reference 
platform for 'pppoe server' that people could download and use. I happen 
to have such a beast which is based on buildroot and has a compressed 
read only loopback filesystem, for small size and long term reliabillity 
as it's targeted at compact flash and other solid state storage.  
Trouble is that it's really targeted at expert users and has a bit of a 
learning curve. I was thinking of releasing the project (based on 
buildroot) and people could just download and run it on their hardware 
but then there's all kinds of niceties that would have to be written and 
I don't have time.  So the question I guess is, would you find a 
reference platform of value or do you just want a written how to 
documenting features available in rp-pppoe/pppd ?

Mike-




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