On Sb, 05 iun 21, 20:07:56, Antonio wrote: > > The problem is my ISP uses pppoe for my symmetric 1 gbps connection and I > know this type of connection requires a quite performant cpu, as it is > single-threaded and uses only one cpu core. I'm currently using a supermicro > motherboard with a (four core) N3710 and setting up ipfire, pfsense, > opnsense or similar to use all my bandwidth is a real pain (if even > possible...)
Well, 1Gbit/s can be a challenge for the typical router processors, but as far as I know those are seriously underpowered compared to even low powered x86 CPUs. For example, the TPLink Archer C7 has to offload some of the processing to dedicated hardware and performance can suffer if that is not properly supported in Linux. > I've been looking for reports on pppoe performance in debian on similar > hardware but have found none (most people seem to be using freebsd-based > firewalls these days), so my questions are: > > Does anyone here have any experience using debian as of router and firewall > on such hardware as mine using pppoe? Debian is using the standard Linux kernel, so I would expect results from any other general purpose distro to be comparable. Even OpenWrt could be interesting, though it is probably tweaked quite a lot more for this use case compared to Debian. > Is there any way debian could use the four cores of my cpu to handle pppoe > traffic? Or any other way to improve pppoe performance... The OpenWrt forum could provide some interesting information. Kind regards, Andrei -- http://wiki.debian.org/FAQsFromDebianUser
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