Alicia da Conceicao wrote:

> After all of this discussion regarding PPPoE, I would appreciate
> knowing the following:
> 
> Which is better on NetBSD ix86:
> 
> 	net/rp-pppoe (Roaring Penguin's PPPoE)
> 	net/mouse-pppoe (derMouse's PPPoE)
> 
> Both NetBSD packages do PPPoE, but rp-pppoe is much larger than
> mouse-pppoe, and my Linux friends tell me that rp-pppoe uses up
> a lot of server resources when it is in use.  mouse-pppoe only
> has a single program file, as opposed to the numerous files in
> rp-pppoe; does this limit its functionality in anyway?

I'm using rp-pppoe.  The main reason I chose that over mouse-pppoe
was because it came with documentation :-).  It's dead easy to set
up and has been working flawlessly for ~6 months.

As to resource usage, it works fine on my 16MB P100 firewall.  The
total resident size of all ppp-related processes totals around 1MB.
It currently has ~2.5MB of free memory (this is a 1.5.x box).

Simon.
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