On Wed, Jun 11, 2003 at 07:37:15AM -0400, Dan Langille wrote:
> 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.

Isn't it kernel space under FreeBSD? And user space under OpenBSD? I got
quite a lot .. maybe 40% or more peak cpu utilisation with a 56k modem, and
I seem to remember it behaving weirdly when it couldn't connnect.
 
> > 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.

Yeh you can, but it works better on a Pentium than a 486, doesn't it?
I think ssh actually seems a bit faster at 100 megabit than 10 megabit
though - interactively - even whilst unloaded. With load it's really
noticable.

Ben.

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