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From: Mike Tancsa <mike@sentex.net>
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Subject: Re: PPPoE
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On 12 Mar 2001 21:39:31 -0500, in sentex.lists.freebsd.net you wrote:

>On a similar note, how stable is the PPPoE in RELENG_4? This would be
>useful to know if I ever decide to drop my cable for DSL.

Very. I am an admin at an ISP, and betweem the various PPPoE
implementations on win32 (Enternet, RasPPPoE), standalone routers =
(LinkSys,
NexLan, D-Link, Netgear, Cisco, Netopia) and LINUX (RP), FreeBSD and then
LINUX are the two most stable implementations.  They are the only two I
have seen that can reliably stay connected and reconnect no matter what =
the
termination reason.  Generally, my box stays connected unless there is =
some
sort of layer one interruption, or the DSLAM reboots and I have have to
re-synch.  But it always comes back after that, right away on its own =
which
is more than I can say for the other implementations.

	---Mike
Mike Tancsa  (mdtancsa@sentex.net)	=09
Sentex Communications Corp,   	=09
Waterloo, Ontario, Canada
"Given enough time, 100 monkeys on 100 routers=20
could setup a national IP network." (KDW2)

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