On 11 Jun 2003 at 14:55, Benjamin Aitchison wrote:

> I'd rather not use PPP under OpenBSD, as that's another process, more
> cpu usage et cetera.

Don't worry about it. I use PPPoe with FreeBSD. It runs very
unloaded.

> Or has anyone else got any unrelated ideas on the best way to go
about
> this? I want to use OpenBSD to do traffic shaping, and it'd
probably pass
> through tunneling, so that I can do compression, and not get in the
way of
> shaping. I could run multiple tunnels, to compress different
segments of
> traffic... and then just shape the compressed tunnel traffic.

Processing network traffic is relatively low-stress. I used to do it
with a 486 which was also working as a file server, smtp server,
mailing list server.

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Dan Langille : http://www.langille.org/
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