Re: [NTLK] PPPoE [was: Wavelan]

From: Stainless Steel Rat (ratinox_at_peorth.gweep.net)
Date: Wed Sep 26 2001 - 15:15:09 EDT


* "Ivan Shaw" <ishaw_at_sympatico.ca> on Wed, 26 Sep 2001
| PPPoE is a reasonable way for service providers to oversubscribe their
| networks.

This is predicated on the idea that oversubscribing their networks is a
reasonable thing. Which it isn't.

Now, I think it is reasonable to use PPPoE for creating encrypted tunnels
on the cheap, but there are usually better or easier ways of doing the same
thing so almost nobody uses PPPoE this way.

| Its implementation in Canada came about after Bell lost a CRTC ruling
| forcing it to open up its DSL infrastructure to resellers.

Well, that won't last long. "They" tried that trick in the US. It failed
miserably.

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