[DM-MUG] Quest DSL

[Matt W]

Hmm, okay. It sounds to me like you're advocating PPPoE instead of 
bridging, correct assumption? Can PPPoE be used with a Static IP? 
What's your take on PPPoE for reliability? I'm hearing about all kinds 
of problems with Earthlink's implementation.

Matthew

On Apr 27, 2004, at 7:34 AM, Dave Weis wrote:

>
> 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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