[DM-MUG] Quest DSL

[Dave Weis]

On Tue, 27 Apr 2004, Bailey Ford wrote:
> The DSL I had with the baby bell in Atlanta used PPPoE for a while. 
> Pretty much instant-on and no time outs. For whatever it's worth...
> On Apr 26, 2004, at 11:09 AM, Matt W wrote:
> > Enlighten me brotha. Why is it nothing like dial-up, I wanna know! I 
> > have never configured PPPoE and hear evil things about it. I heard it 
> > was like dial-up due to the fact that it had to reconnect after a 
> > time-out period and could take up to 30 seconds to do so.

Sorry, spaced out. Most of the difference has to do with the atm layer of 
dsl. Using bridging like Freese and some other ISP's doesn't scale as well 
because you have groups of people on your subnet that you can't reach by 
default. When I had dsl at home, there were two of my clients on the same 
subnet that I couldn't connect to without sshing to another server first, 
or setting up routes explicitly. With bridging you can also just pick IP 
addresses and take them, causing severe problems when the real owner comes 
back on line. 

It is a little bit slower, but not appreciably, probably no more than 
2-3%, due to slightly more headers on the packets. 

dave


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