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Touche, that's easy:
You just made an argument for ATM to the desktop... [since the WAN was ATM].
There are those who thot the whole ADSL implementation should have been with an
ATM NIC - no ethernet!  This was the early preachings of Alcatel.  Unfortunately
our American (that's us) providers told us that Ethernet had already won the
desktop war and that nobody was going to buy an ATM NIC card for $300 when they
could buy an ethernet card for $30.  So there you have it, ethernet in the LAN,
ATM in the WAN [of course I'm simplifying here], and we will live the consequences
for probably a generation.  I think Ameritech actually started ADSL with an ATM
NIC a couple years ago.
John

Thor Lancelot Simon wrote:

> 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*?
>
> --
> Thor Lancelot Simon                                           tls@rek.tjls.com
>     And now he couldn't remember when this passion had flown, leaving him so
>   foolish and bewildered and astray: can any man?
>                                                    William Styron

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