[LARTC] Shaping of pppoe clients

[Georgi Alexandrov]

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
>


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