RE: Is hotspot going to replace PPPoE

Yes I agree that MTU does in some cases cause issues, but not because it's lower like the original commenter suggested. It causes problems for the reasons you explain.

Bob
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From: owner-pppoe@ipsec.org [mailto:owner-pppoe@ipsec.org] On Behalf Of David F. Skoll
Sent: Tuesday, January 21, 2003 9:48 AM
To: pppoe@ipsec.org
Subject: RE: Is hotspot going to replace PPPoE

On Tue, 21 Jan 2003, Bob Carrick wrote:

> Well since monthly limits to how much you can download and upload are

You can do it with DHCP or static IP addresses, too, using SNMP.

> It's not going anywhere. Millions and millions

Well, that's true.

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> I don't see why a lower MTU is an issue, since that is set by the

Read my paper: http://www.roaringpenguin.com/pppoe/als-pppoe-paper.pdf

The lower MTU should not be an issue, but in practice, it causes problems.

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David.