From owner-freebsd-stable Sun Jul 30 19:48:46 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mail.rdc1.ct.home.com (ha1.rdc1.ct.home.com [24.2.0.66]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4BC4E37B98F for ; Sun, 30 Jul 2000 19:48:41 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from tsikora@home.com) Received: from home.com ([24.2.168.186]) by mail.rdc1.ct.home.com (InterMail vM.4.01.03.00 201-229-121) with ESMTP id <20000731024839.CYLS9101.mail.rdc1.ct.home.com@home.com> for ; Sun, 30 Jul 2000 19:48:39 -0700 Message-ID: <3984E9BC.A27E0C8E@home.com> Date: Sun, 30 Jul 2000 22:51:40 -0400 From: Ted Sikora Organization: Jtl Development Group X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.74 [en] (X11; U; Linux 2.2.12 i386) X-Accept-Language: en-US, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG" Subject: Re: PPPoE References: <200007310105.e6V15CT21809@dna.tsolab.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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