From owner-freebsd-net Sun Apr 1 14:21:12 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-net@freebsd.org Received: from lariat.org (lariat.org [12.23.109.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2825B37B718 for ; Sun, 1 Apr 2001 14:21:09 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from brett@lariat.org) Received: from mustang.lariat.org (IDENT:ppp0.lariat.org@lariat.org [12.23.109.2]) by lariat.org (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id PAA00793; Sun, 1 Apr 2001 15:20:42 -0600 (MDT) Message-Id: <4.3.2.7.2.20010401141552.0452a6c0@localhost> X-Sender: brett@localhost X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Version 4.3.2 Date: Sun, 01 Apr 2001 14:20:38 -0700 To: Wes Peters From: Brett Glass Subject: Re: Transition from modem PPP to PPPoE Cc: freebsd-net@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: <3AC73AC3.515F737B@softweyr.com> References: <4.3.2.7.2.20010330201802.00dc8f00@localhost> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Sender: owner-freebsd-net@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org At 07:27 AM 4/1/2001, Wes Peters wrote: >Why use PPPoE -- you really prefer to toss away gobs of bandwidth? I don't see why it should be that inefficient. In fact, I've been thinking that due to header compression it might even be a bit faster. I'm doing it because we need a a machine on a wireless network to appear to be located at the hub. PPPoE creates a "tunnel" that does that. The way the network is set up, not all of the nodes can hear one another, but all can communicate with the hub. Using PPPoE makes the traffic go through the hub without subnetting (which would require reconfiguring many machines, some of which I do not administer). Could you suggest a better solution? --Brett To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-net" in the body of the message