> [on PPPoE]
>
> Well... a few toronto people and I got together (I'm trying to find
> email addresses) to discuss the problem. One particular thought that
> we had was that it would be cool if a single ppp process could handle
> a large number of connections. We also discussed the fact that you
> may very well want some low-level routing of the PPPoE packets.
>
> The cost model with our telco (at least) is that each ethernet
> connection costs $1500/mo. So... we need to be able to run somewhere
> around 5K to 10K connections (users) down each pipe. This means that
> a box on the front end to "route" the packets to multiple boxes is an
> asset.
So just use an Ethernet bridge. You could play some games with the
discovery protocol (which uses broadcast MAC frames) with multiple servers
are the remote end.
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