Date: Sun, 30 Jul 2000 22:51:40 -0400 From: Ted Sikora <tsikora@home.com> To: "freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG" <freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: PPPoE Message-ID: <3984E9BC.A27E0C8E@home.com> References: <200007310105.e6V15CT21809@dna.tsolab.org>
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Dan Ts'o wrote: > > > 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. > They have SNET/SBC in my area. According to them it uses DHCP not PPPoe.(Yet their faq says PPPoe?) I ordered it for the 14th out of curiosity. See how it stands up to cable. Anyone have experience with SNET DSL? I ordered it with NTPLEX.net as my ISP. You can chose your own ISP. -- Ted Sikora Jtl Development Group tsikora@powerusersbbs.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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