Jeremy Davis wrote: >> I really don't get the love affair with PPPOE; I assume there's >> something I'm missing, and I've always been curious as to what. > > There is a lot of cool things you can do with radius / pppoe systems, change > an IP if they haven't paid which can redirect customers to non-payment > portals, use radius to dole out IP address ranges, authentication, > encryption, and automatic bandwidth rules via MT's. These are just a few of > the cool things can result with PPPoE / Radius systems. Like David said all > of these things can be done without PPPoE but it is a lot easier to control > the customer from an external system with these things in place.
I just don't see which of those you can't do with simple DHCP and RADIUS, and that's a lot easier for the customer. The customer doesn't have to set up a PPPOE client on their PC or router or Xbox 360 or whatever dumb network appliance they just bought for seventeen bucks on eBay; they plug it in, it magically works. David Smith MVN.net -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- WISPA Wants You! Join today! http://signup.wispa.org/ -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- WISPA Wireless List: [email protected] Subscribe/Unsubscribe: http://lists.wispa.org/mailman/listinfo/wireless Archives: http://lists.wispa.org/pipermail/wireless/
