RE: Is hotspot going to replace PPPoE

I was speaking more of the ability to have a multimedia server that you pay extra to, to get your userid and password on that radius table and you log directly in to it via the PPPoE client.

Bob
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-----Original Message-----
From: owner-pppoe@ipsec.org [mailto:owner-pppoe@ipsec.org] On Behalf Of David F. Skoll
Sent: Tuesday, January 21, 2003 8:34 AM
To: pppoe@ipsec.org
Subject: RE: Is hotspot going to replace PPPoE

On Tue, 21 Jan 2003, Bob Carrick wrote:

> allows for ISPs to resell the same line multiple times. IE: Rated

> etc.

Actually, PPPoE is problematic for multimedia distribution, because it doesn't support multicasting. If you want to distribute a movie to PPPoE clients, you have to unicast a copy to each client, even if they are on the same Ethernet segment.

There was a proposal to add multicasting to PPPoE, but it was pretty roundly criticized and didn't get anywhere.

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David.

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