Kenneth Kalmer wrote: > Guys > > After reading through the archives I found some insightful ways to be > able to shape traffic to pppoe clients from the server. I have two > questions on the topic of setting up a pppoe server however... > > 1. The clients will all be connected to each other using a normal > ethernet network, the segments connected with managed switches. The > capacity is roughly 500 nodes. Will these pppoe sessions interfere > with each other or not? What do you mean by 'interfere' here? > > 2. I'd like to know if anyone has tried to shape pppoe client traffic > by placing a transparent bridge between the servers and clients, and > shaping on this bridge. I'm just testing the water here, after what I > read in other threads it will be easier to just use a set of carefully > crafted ip-up & ip-down scripts with pppd rather than the bridge. But > nonetheless, opinions are always needed. I use the ip-up and ip-down scripts, and a radius exec attribute so probably I can help with them. I'm planning on segmenting such a network with linux bridges for better filtering and QoS control. But that's yet to come ;-) > Thanks guys > -- regards, Georgi Alexandrov key server - http://pgp.mit.edu/ :: key id - 0x37B4B3EE key fingerprint - E429 BF93 FA67 44E9 B7D4 F89E F990 01C1 37B4 B3EE
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