I'm not sure they are in the business of R&D. Solution --> money --> FAST ;)
Btw, some of them moved from pptp to l2tp since it is lighter protocol and the equipment is chipper. Check this site: http://www.netguru.co.il/modules.php?op=modload&name=News&file=article&sid=3 7 Best Regards Yehoram Ben-Yaacov -----Original Message----- From: Tzafrir Cohen [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wed, December 10, 2003 13:20 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; Linux-IL mailing list Subject: Re: Cable Internet, 012, and what's between it... On Wed, Dec 10, 2003 at 11:31:47AM +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hi, > > >From some contact I had with the cable companies I know that: > 1. All of them are in the progress of switching to some sort of dialup > connection - Over cable it will be pptp or l2tp. > 2. The dialup connection has not been done in any way to help the customers. > It is only to help the ISPs to prevent unauthorized people to connect to > their networks (1. MAC cloning. So why no identify a client by its modem ID? Or the phisical connection? Surely it is something they can resolve, if they want to. > 2. some cable modem let you get up to 4 IP > addresses from the ISP, which means you can connect 4 PC to the ISP > directly. They don't like it...). If you get anything from it (Which I know > we are not) then good for you :) Again, bad bookkeeping by the dhcp server -- Tzafrir Cohen +---------------------------+ http://www.technion.ac.il/~tzafrir/ |vim is a mutt's best friend| mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] +---------------------------+ ================================================================= To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
