From owner-freebsd-net Fri Aug 20 10:34:14 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-net@freebsd.org Received: from super-g.com (super-g.com [207.240.140.161]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1C729154A6 for ; Fri, 20 Aug 1999 10:34:11 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from spork@super-g.com) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by super-g.com (Postfix) with SMTP id 77453B8C0; Fri, 20 Aug 1999 13:31:58 -0400 (EDT) Date: Fri, 20 Aug 1999 13:31:58 -0400 (EDT) From: spork X-Sender: spork@super-g.inch.com To: jonathan michaels Cc: Brian Somers , Brian Somers , Robert Watson , freebsd-net@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: "Invitation to participate in PPPoE Trial" (fwd) In-Reply-To: <19990803225325.E10638@caamora.com.au> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-net@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Tue, 3 Aug 1999, jonathan michaels wrote: > i realise that all things bright and shiney are seen as must > haves, but could you (briefly and not so technically) explain > to me and the others who may also be wondering what real > advantage PPPoE would offer to endusers. It's great!! Your ISP has to shell out for a Redback box to terminate these connections (they co-authored the RFC w/UUNet), so right there if you are a customer with stock in RedBack, you make a little cash. On top of that, you bandwidth goes down a bit as you encapsulate umpteen protocols inside each other, you get a sloppier network design from your dsl provider as they realize that with PPPoE they can think of their dsl cloud as a "Big LAN", and you get to put that new PIII's spare cycles to use doing PPP on your 1.6Mb link. And don't forget how your dedicated dsl line now requires you to "dial up" each time you want to do something... Those redback folks have an excellent sales team. I don't much care for the idea. Charles > or, please point to a reading list, bibliography, rfc, etc etc. > > regards, > > jonathan > > -- > =============================================================================== > Jonathan Michaels > PO Box 144, Rosebery, NSW 1445 Australia > =========================================================== > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-net" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-net" in the body of the message