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Subject: What is PPPPoed?
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I read the man pppoed, but that is so cryptic I got nothing out of
it.

What is the purpose of PPPoed?

Who are the typical users?

How is this different than using ppp with
'set device PPPoE:XXX' in the ppp.conf