On Wed, Aug 22, 2001 at 01:08:01PM +0700, Bill Thompson wrote:
> steve wrote:
> >
> > On Tue, Aug 21, 2001 at 07:13:08AM -0400, Digital Wokan wrote:
> > > I thought PPPOE was for DSL. Why would cable kill itself with this?
> > > And do cable systems continue working without having PPPOE installed?
> > > (So far, Cox@Home hasn't switched to using such a system. Thank
> > > whatever diety as appropriate.)
> >
> > FWIU, it's all about revenue. With PPOE they can cram more users on their
> > pipes as everyone is not on 24/7 and...in Canada anyways, the offical
> > reason is because legislation require them to open the pipes to
> > competitors. Using PPOE type of sofware the cable company then can
> > determine which user is theirs or a resellers.
>
> Thanks for this.
>
> > PPOE actually was developed in Canada by Bell Sympatico for use with
> > their high speed ADSL, they must have made in Open Source because it was
> > since about 2 years ago, it has been provided by them for download by
> > anybody who wished to do so.
>
> Actually, the version of PPOE supplied by my ISP was a RedHat 5.2 rpm
> binary!! I found the source that compiled without incident under MDK
> 8.0.
No doubt, I'm just saying that Bell Canada developed it orignally for
their purposes and made it available to all. =)
Two years ago it could only be downloaded from Sympatico [division of
Bell Canada] servers. FWIU their code is what's the basis of Roaring
Penguin et al.
Cheers
--
Steve - Toronto ICQ 35454764
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