[e2e] on local ethernet throughput?

Geoff Huston gih at telstra.net
Wed Oct 24 15:50:19 PDT 2001


At 10/25/01 05:29 AM, Woojune Kim wrote:
>I was just wondering about the comment w.r.t PPPoE being an abomination.
>
>While I agree it is a complete mess and not very pretty, I think it was
>deployed because network operators had a real problem : authenticating
>users and making money when deploying DSL modems.
>
>I've always wondered if there are any other methods that could have been
>used.

probably:

    http://www.telstra.net/gih/papers/brdbndsat/2001-11-dsl.pdf

Geoff




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