From: Stuart Henderson > with one vendor implementation of this, it saves you from having a huge > bunch of entries in your arp table... otherwise: control over the PPP > session, maybe better logging, maybe access to ipv6 or multicast which > could be a problem with some CPE modem/routers, and it puts most of > the "per user" settings into the firewall, so it may make it easier > to maintain spare modems/routers for a bunch of lines that you can > just swap-out without reconfiguring. if you need that sort of thing.
Thanks for answering all my questions. That's pretty much the implication of the man pages except for the IP6 which I haven't bumped into yet. :] My ISP is the first in Oz to implement dual stack and the only one so far. Of course that's neither here nor there as there are no domestic grade modems or routers that do native yet anyway. Everyone is tunneling in except for big business. It's all a crying shame really - RFC @ 1998 (year). Still if I can do IP6 from my router straight to PPPoE ... I will have to read some more on encapsulation. From: Chris Tankersley > Honestly, I think it is going to depend on your ISP. Fortunately my ISP is very geek oriented. There would be nerds in their office tipping keyboards upside down and breaking pencils if they ever did this: > So when you set the modem to 'Bridge' whatever was behind it was set to DHCP, > > not PPPoE. PPPoE no longer worked because the DSLAM took care of the > > PPPoE connection, not the modem anymore. After we got over the initial shock we might wonder if it really matters. I don't expect it does. Presumably this is what happens when people do that last mile as gigabit. http://www.internode.on.net/business/internet/corporate_internet/internode_ethernet/ Still, we are going FTTP here. Starts next year. So I expect to be running 100Mbps by around 2020. Right when native IP6 kicks in. :] http://www.pm.gov.au/media/Release/2009/media_release_0903.cfm Thanks fellers. That's plenty of food for thought. Best wishes.
