[113906] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Broadband Subscriber Management
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Nathan Ward)
Thu Apr 23 08:45:28 2009
From: Nathan Ward <nanog@daork.net>
To: nanog list <nanog@nanog.org>
In-Reply-To: <f9a8f300904230523v39afc540o9ce592bf186328f7@mail.gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 24 Apr 2009 00:45:17 +1200
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On 24/04/2009, at 12:23 AM, William McCall wrote:
> My understanding of the PPPoA/E deal is that SPs (originally) wanted
> to
> prevent some yahoo with a DSL modem from just being able to hook in to
> someone's existing DSL connection and using it, so they decided to
> implemement PPPoA and require some sort of authentication to prevent
> this
> scenario.
Also, DSL was the upgrade from dialup in many places, and dialup is
generally PPP.
For ISPs, the re-engineering required north of the last mile is much
less, particularly in the billing/accounting systems that no one wants
to touch because they were written by that coder who left a few years
ago and work just fine.
--
Nathan Ward
