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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