From owner-freebsd-stable Sun Jul 30 18: 7:50 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from dna.tsolab.org (dna.rockefeller.edu [129.85.40.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 025A937B8A4 for ; Sun, 30 Jul 2000 18:07:47 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dan@dna.tsolab.org) Received: (from dan@localhost) by dna.tsolab.org (8.10.1/8.10.1) id e6V15CT21809; Sun, 30 Jul 2000 21:05:12 -0400 From: "Dan Ts'o" Message-Id: <200007310105.e6V15CT21809@dna.tsolab.org> Subject: Re: PPPoE To: garycor@home.com (Gary T. Corcoran) Date: Sun, 30 Jul 2000 21:05:09 -0400 (EDT) Cc: mitayai@bricsnet.com, tsikora@home.com, freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG, chat@gtabug.org In-Reply-To: <3984CE36.1DC646BF@home.com> from "Gary T. Corcoran" at Jul 30, 0 08:54:14 pm X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL25] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > Just FYI, Bell Atlantic (I guess they're now called Verizon) is deploying > the same junk. I mean, PPPoE is *so* wasteful, with THIRTY extra bytes > of overhead per frame (10 bytes of LLC/SNAP header, 14 bytes of Ethernet > header, plus 6 bytes of PPPoE header), compared to direct PPP over ATM. > So our northern friends are not alone in this situation... My own experience with PPPoE and HellAtlantic Infospeed is absolutely horrid. It is no coincidence that BA is ranked at the absolute bottom in the national ratings on www.dslreports.com. Stay away if at all possible -- you truly don't get what you don't pay for... We are switching away from BA as fast as we can. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message