I like to do both. Preference is pppoe but if they don't have a router we do dhcp. But with todays radios we often set the radio up to do pppoe. One of the nice thing with pppoe is its easy to segregate the clients and firewall them and quickly track down an virus infected user and prevent clients from infecting each others as well track bit usage on traffic between clients as well limit bandwidth utilization between two clients on the same ap no way to do with dhcp. Also easier to add more ips on a site since pppoe uses /32 networks for client ip assignments. So you do not have to route a complete subnet to the area just have a "central" pppoe pool and have ospf route things where it needs to go.
/Eje ------Original Message------ From: David E. Smith Sender: [email protected] To: WISPA General List ReplyTo: WISPA General List Subject: Re: [WISPA] Really Simple Mikrotik shaping? Sent: Jan 20, 2009 11:05 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/ Sent via BlackBerry from T-Mobile -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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/
