🚀 go-pugleaf

In article <3A89E8E8.A629D758@mynetwatchman.com>,
Lawrence Baldwin  <baldwinlSPAMMENOT@mynetwatchman.com> wrote:
>Michael wrote:
>> 
>> "Josh Howlett" <bujfxh@shark.cse.bris.ac.uk> wrote in message
>> news:G8prup.GCw@bath.ac.uk...
>> | James Carlson <james.d.carlson@sun.com> wrote:
>> | > John D Loop <loop@snt.bst.bls.com> writes:
>
>> |
>> | > Looks can be deceiving.  It's trivial to forge packets on PPPoE, and
>> | > use these forged packets to highjack user sessions or snipe them out
>> | > of existence as long as you have bridging at the Ethernet layer.
>
>James,
>
>(Great Book, BTW!)
>
>With a Redback configuration and PPPoE, you've got a private PVC between
>the customer and the Redback...no bridging involved.  Thus, I assume
>session hijacking isn't an issue.

Uh, excuse me, but if you have a *private PVC*, what's the point of using
this garbage *at all*?

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  foolish and bewildered and astray: can any man?
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