From owner-freebsd-net Tue Oct 26 1:11:57 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-net@freebsd.org Received: from acacia.cts.ucla.edu (acacia.ctslab.ucla.edu [164.67.61.44]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 90FC014A10 for ; Tue, 26 Oct 1999 01:11:53 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from denis@acacia.cts.ucla.edu) Received: from localhost (denis@localhost) by acacia.cts.ucla.edu (8.9.3/8.8.8) with ESMTP id BAA39208; Tue, 26 Oct 1999 01:13:53 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from denis@acacia.cts.ucla.edu) Date: Tue, 26 Oct 1999 01:13:52 -0700 (PDT) From: Denis DeLaRoca To: spork Cc: freebsd-net@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: PPPoE In-Reply-To: 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 Fri, 1 Oct 1999, spork wrote: > It seems more and more ADSL providers in the US are moving from bridged > IP over ethernet to PPP over Ethernet as they dump whatever clunky > solutions they started with and move to the RedBack "subscriber management > system". The idea it seems is to simulate the familiar dialup connection. > This lets you hand out dynamic addresses, dump idle users, discourage > servers, track usage, hamper NAT, and (the relevant part) discourage > people from connecting with anything but "supported" OS's. How does it hamper NAT, could you elaborate? -- Denis To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-net" in the body of the message