Date: Sun, 01 Apr 2001 14:20:38 -0700 From: Brett Glass <brett@lariat.org> To: Wes Peters <wes@softweyr.com> Cc: freebsd-net@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Transition from modem PPP to PPPoE Message-ID: <4.3.2.7.2.20010401141552.0452a6c0@localhost> In-Reply-To: <3AC73AC3.515F737B@softweyr.com> References: <4.3.2.7.2.20010330201802.00dc8f00@localhost>
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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. 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? --Brett To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-net" in the body of the message
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