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James...

I followed the threads on pppoe and wanted to throw out another topic I'm really
interested in.... Etherloop.... as in elastic networks.....

........ any thoughts/ ideas/ ?????????

Jim

James Carlson wrote:

> "Christopher Jones" <c2jones@bellsouth.net> writes:
> > What troubles me though, is with all the misgivings I hear (there have been
> > plenty abroad, TechTV included) about the PPPoE configuration as less
> > stable, etc. than the other packages and yet, for my own personal situation,
> > the PPPoE switch (from my former PPPoA) has been a real gem of a fix for the
> > simply woefully unreliable service situations I had in the past compared to
> > the virtually perfect service I have now.
>
> Implementation and protocol design are not the same thing.  It's
> certainly possible to do competent implementations of lousy protocols
> as well as incompetent implementations of better protocols.
>
> I was commenting only on the design of PPPoE itself, not any
> particular implementation.
>
> > Any idea as to why the infamous PPPoE configuration has proved for some
> > anyway, as the lifesaver for certain areas? Perhaps your book outlines this?
>
> As above, I wasn't commenting on any particular implementation.  The
> design of PPPoE is bad in many respects.  That doesn't mean that
> replacing bug-ridden PPPoA servers with better-built PPPoE servers
> wouldn't be a net gain for the average user.
>
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