[113866] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Broadband Subscriber Management
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Charles Wyble)
Wed Apr 22 13:47:03 2009
Date: Wed, 22 Apr 2009 10:46:47 -0700
From: Charles Wyble <charles@thewybles.com>
To: Curtis Maurand <cmaurand@xyonet.com>
In-Reply-To: <49EF3F5D.6060604@xyonet.com>
Cc: nanog@merit.edu
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
Quite a bit of overhead. Good article here:
http://blog.ioshints.info/2009/03/adsl-overhead.html
Curtis Maurand wrote:
>
> I don't understand why DSL providers don't just administratively down
> the port the customer is hooked to rather than using PPPoE which costs
> bandwidth and has huge management overhead when you have to disconnect a
> customer. I made the same recommendation to the St. Maarten (Dutch)
> phone company several years ago. They weren't listening either. That
> way you can rate limit via ATM or by throttling the port administratively.
>
> Just a suggestion
>
