Re: Is hotspot going to replace PPPoE

How does hotspot prevent the theft of local loop? If a couple users have an IP in the same subnet they can totally bypass the router and so on. This traffic would not be controlled or accounted using the router. One user could proxy off another user paying for service. Worse still they could setup a VPN between a couple offices. With PPPoE all traffic must flow through the access server and be accounted. Your network can be setup to only allow PPPoE traffic or only allow any user to communicate with the router which would prevent this. Also, how would you hand out public IP's with hotspot? And, if you do not allow users to communicate directly with each what if they are in the same subnet and need too? They will try to go direct and that won't work if it is blocked. I think PPPoE solves all of this.

>From a wireless Internet perspective this is my take on it.

Matt

> I don't see much activity on this list, so here is a real current issue
servers
> and this appears to be the way of the future. We have ten times more
> interest in hotspot than pppoe. Basically "hotspot" means a box that can
> autheticate and give access with the client computers have dhcp or static
> ip configured. Of course it is not ppp, but we have included all the
> radius info and most of the important features of ppp in our "hotspot"
> authentication. Before any ppp gurus get mad, most of what is needed from
> ISPs from ppp (and pppoe) do can be done with "hotspot" technology. It is
> easier for the client because they don't need a pppoe client.
>
> Comments please!
Received on Mon Jan 20 18:50:09 2003