On 4/25/10 9:23 PM, Jack Bates wrote: > Seth Mattinen wrote: >> On 4/25/10 4:33 PM, Tony Hoyle wrote: >>> On 25/04/2010 22:06, Larry Sheldon wrote: >>> >>>> The whole idea that DHCP should only be used for (and is absolute proof >>>> of the status of) despised-class customers is just nuts. >>> >>> I've never seen DHCP used on residential DSL circuits.. it's all PPP (oA >>> mostly, and oE if you want) in this country (which the telco picks up >>> and sends as L2TP to the DSL provider). I get alocated my /26 and it >>> doesn't matter which LNS I connect to or how I get there (indeed I can >>> talk L2TP directly to the provider to connect over 3G etc.). >>> >> >> I have, once, with routed bridged encapsulation instead of PPP. >> > > I personally love it, as do my customers who don't care much for cpe's > that do NAT or having to configure PPP on their devices. Individual > vlans or more traditional pvc for each customer, and massive router > configs make for fun. Perhaps someday vendors will support it better, > but I enjoy the low overhead and stupid cpe. > > Oh, and did I mention the customers using switches instead of routers > get to enjoy IPv6? >
Don't forget the increased MTU without PPP eating some of it. ~Seth
