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A couple of comments: First, on the PPP protocol, get the
O'Reilly book. It's got all the detail you'll ever want, and more.
On ISP's understanding what we want, sadly they're few and far
between. And the situation is going to get worse. I'm dealing with
a few small ISPs who understand what I'm doing with Linux
servers; they're going to be an endangered species, as the AOLs
and MSNs of the world gobble each other up. The huge ISPs won't
have decent tech support, and won't care, and my client base, the
small businesses that can't afford T1 service, are going to suffer!
I'm about to change my pricing on client systems connected to
DSL -- I'll discount the Linux integration, but charge every minute of
the time I spend trying to deal with the phone company about the
service.
Thanks for listening.
Charlie Shoemaker
Date sent: Sun, 22 Aug 1999 12:59:05 +0200 (CEST)
From: "Marcell L. Toth" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > Do you think this would really happen? Is what you are saying above is
> > the ISP allowing 256 IPv6 addresses to be usable over a PPP link?
> > Because that would be great if that became some kind of a "standard
> > service" by ISPs once IPv6 becomes standardized. :>
(snip)
> But, I personally am NOT sure that this will happen. I know lots of ISPs,
> they do not really cre about the needs of the people. And as over 90% of
> their users are using some kind of Microsoft OSes, they most probably have
> not the slightest idea what routing is, they won't really have any benefit
> of this, so I think ISPs will only start this service when there are
> enough people requesting this.... and there won't be enough for a while.
> This was my personal opinion.
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