Date: Thu, 5 Aug 1999 18:04:15 +1000 From: jonathan michaels <jon@caamora.com.au> To: "Louis A. Mamakos" <louie@TransSys.COM> Cc: Brian Somers <brian@Awfulhak.org>, Robert Watson <robert+freebsd@cyrus.watson.org>, freebsd-net@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: "Invitation to participate in PPPoE Trial" (fwd) Message-ID: <19990805180415.G13504@caamora.com.au> In-Reply-To: <199908031345.JAA09965@whizzo.transsys.com>; from Louis A. Mamakos on Tue, Aug 03, 1999 at 09:45:17AM -0400 References: <199908031321.OAA07776@keep.lan.Awfulhak.org> <199908031345.JAA09965@whizzo.transsys.com>
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On Tue, Aug 03, 1999 at 09:45:17AM -0400, Louis A. Mamakos wrote: > > > Personally, I prefer the idea of having something like PPPoUDP > > instead. This would provide all the same facilities, be very easy to > > implement (user-ppp can do it already!) and would be routable, all > > for a very small encapsulation overhead. > > This already exists; it's called L2TP. > > One of the desires for PPPoE was that an ISP could install a *DSL > connection to a customer, and use Ethernet as the medium between the > DSL "modem" CPE device and your PC(s). Using something like L2TP > would require that the DSL "modem" device either: brian, louis, et al thank you all fro the descriptions and gneral information regarding this issue. i've got lots of source to trace down. warm regards and much apreciations. cheers, jonathan -- =============================================================================== Jonathan Michaels PO Box 144, Rosebery, NSW 1445 Australia ===========================================================<jon@caamora.com.au> To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-net" in the body of the message
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