[RP-PPPoE] installation guide

[Evgeniy Kozhuhovskiy]

Btw, u can try to look at mikrotik


Ananthnag Bonthala R. пишет:
> 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
> 
> -----Original Message-----
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> [mailto:rp-pppoe-bounces at lists.roaringpenguin.com] On Behalf Of Insane
> Laughing Clown
> 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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