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Article #328Re: James - any new thots on pppoE?
From: fivie
Date: Wed, 14 Feb 2001 00:07
Date: Wed, 14 Feb 2001 00:07
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I am interested ... What is the title of James Carlson 's book is it available @ Barnes & Noble ? 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
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