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Jim,

Reason I asked because a friend of mine was an engineer with the company..

Jack

Jim Fincher wrote:

> Jack,
>
> Just a bit.... a friend is working for them in sales.... sure looks interesting
> to me... definitely has to be some new generation stuff out there...etherloop
> ????
>
> Jim
>
> jP wrote:
>
> > Jim,
> >
> > How familiar are you with Elastics Networks?
> >
> > Jack
> >
> > Jim Fincher wrote:
> >
> > > What a great dialogue... wish the heck I could keep up with ALL of it !
> > >
> > > Any thoughts here on Etherloop ?..... Elastic Networks/Nortel's supposed
> > > "next generation DSL"............????
> > >
> > > Sure would like some opinions..... www.elastic.com is their site....
> > >
> > > Jim
> > >
> > > John D Loop wrote:
> > >
> > > > James Carlson,
> > > > Reading your new book on ppp.  Great stuff!  I read with interest your 1
> > > > page "slam" on pppoE and wondered if you had any more recent thots on
> > > > it.  It seems like we are stuck with it out here in ADSL land as a
> > > > defacto standard, for better or worse. All SOHO routers pretty much do
> > > > it now, along with pppoA.  And the consumers have to add pppoE clients
> > > > to their PC if they don't have a SOHO routers - this can get dicey
> > > > sometimes.  I can understand why it was invented [existing ppp
> > > > infrastructures & existing ethernet LAN environments], and I can even
> > > > see some advantages  [multiple sessions and multiple service selection].
> > > >
> > > > The biggest problem I see is the smaller MTU breaking some connections
> > > > when intervening routers don't allow MTU path discovery to work
> > > > [assuming it is turned on].
> > > > John