Date: Sun, 1 Apr 2001 19:12:21 -0400 (EDT) From: Alex Pilosov <alex@pilosoft.com> To: Brett Glass <brett@lariat.org> Cc: Wes Peters <wes@softweyr.com>, freebsd-net@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Transition from modem PPP to PPPoE Message-ID: <Pine.BSO.4.10.10104011820240.31854-100000@spider.pilosoft.com> In-Reply-To: <4.3.2.7.2.20010401141552.0452a6c0@localhost>
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On Sun, 1 Apr 2001, Brett Glass wrote: > 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. It IS terribly inefficient. Header compression doesn't do much for you. Ethernet over ATM overhead sucks enough, no need to add PPP headers. > 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? I'm hacking on a 'magic box' solution, which will essentially listen for ARP packets from box A to box B, reply with its own MAC, and then forward ethernet packets back onto the same wire, rewriting the MACs appropriately. -alex To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-net" in the body of the message
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