On Tue, Sep 25 2001 Gerstein, Sam wrote:
>PPP is Point to Point Protocol... what's your argument against PPPoE? It
>seems to me to be a reasonable way of adding a level of authentication on an
>unsecure physical network
PPPoE is a reasonable way for service providers to oversubscribe their networks. Its implementation in Canada came about after Bell lost a CRTC ruling forcing it to open up its DSL infrastructure to resellers.
There is no implied security; authentication is for access to the ISP, much like PPP over dial-up. You still have the idle masses going after the connected machine except that you're required to run an additional (unnecessary) software layer.
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