RE: Is hotspot going to replace PPPoE

Well since monthly limits to how much you can download and upload are here in full force PPPoE makes that very easy, since it's a radius attribute to track it. It's not going anywhere. Millions and millions of users on PPPoE with 1000s more every single day. Cable test beds for PPPoE, most new wireless I've seen is PPPoE, etc, etc.

I don't see why a lower MTU is an issue, since that is set by the PPPoE client and does not cause any breaks, I really don't see an issue there.

Bob
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-----Original Message-----
From: John Angelmo [mailto:john@veidit.net] Sent: Tuesday, January 21, 2003 8:41 AM
To: Bob Carrick
Cc: pppoe@ipsec.org
Subject: Re: Is hotspot going to replace PPPoE

PPPoE is a big problem and not a solution, there are major disadvantages

with pppoe, for example the lower MTU, no multicast and so on... The best solution is to use Ethernet, when using flatrate there is no reason for the users to login.
There isn't any reason to use it since you still haveto use specific clients with Win2k...
Hopefully PPPoE is now on it's way out of the market. Received on Tue Jan 21 08:46:08 2003