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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