🚀 go-pugleaf

Jack,

Just a bit.... a friend is working for them in sales.... sure looks interesting
to me... definitely has to be some new generation stuff out there...etherloop
????

Jim

jP wrote:

> 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