[NTLUG:Discuss] Verizon FIOS and PPPoE

[Ralph Green, Jr.]

Howdy,
  I use IPCOP, which is a fork from Smoothwall.  My ISP(SBC) requires
PPOE and IPCOP handles it just fine.  I expect Smoothwall would do fine.
  I don't think an IPCOP box would have any problem handling the speed
of these fiber connections.  You might not want to use an old 486 for a
15/2 connection, but a P120 should be pretty good.  If you need faster
than that, I bet it is not much more.  I use a 366 P2 laptop and CPU
utilization is less than 10 percent even when I saturate the DSL
connection.  Maybe someone here can comment, but my surmise is that the
limitation is probably just that the embedded processors on some of the
$40 nat/routers is not up to handling fiber speed connections.
Good day,
Ralph

On Thu, 2005-03-17 at 10:14 -0600, lonny.dahl at verizon.com wrote:
> I'm using a Smoothwall firewall on a P120 Compaq Presario (it's a dedicated
> firewall...doesn't do anything else, but would probably still be too slow
> to take full advantage of fios...maybe not) and if I remember correctly,
> there is an option in setup for PPPoE.  I could be wrong though because
> I've never enabled it.  My DSL doesn't require PPPoE...it's strictly DHCP.