From owner-freebsd-net Thu Apr 5 9:48:57 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-net@freebsd.org Received: from homer.softweyr.com (bsdconspiracy.net [208.187.122.220]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3867837B63F for ; Thu, 5 Apr 2001 09:48:53 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from wes@softweyr.com) Received: from [127.0.0.1] (helo=softweyr.com) by homer.softweyr.com with esmtp (Exim 3.16 #1) id 14l1EF-00004n-00; Wed, 04 Apr 2001 22:18:40 -0600 Message-ID: <3ACBF21F.72FB2076@softweyr.com> Date: Wed, 04 Apr 2001 22:18:39 -0600 From: Wes Peters Organization: Softweyr LLC X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.75 [en] (X11; U; Linux 2.2.12 i386) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Bernie Doehner Cc: Brett Glass , freebsd-net@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Transition from modem PPP to PPPoE References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-net@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Bernie Doehner wrote: > > Certain tunneling implementations use PPPoe. I'm well aware of that. These are generally referred to as "bad" or "stupid" tunnels, because PPPoE is such a wasteful protocol. Unless you really need to route IPX, AppleTalk, or DECnet packets across the tunnel, in which case it's no worse than anything else. -- "Where am I, and what am I doing in this handbasket?" Wes Peters Softweyr LLC wes@softweyr.com http://softweyr.com/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-net" in the body of the message