[118824] in North American Network Operators' Group
RE: PPPoE vs. Bridged ADSL
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Sean Donelan)
Fri Oct 30 08:19:17 2009
Date: Fri, 30 Oct 2009 08:18:44 -0400 (EDT)
From: Sean Donelan <sean@donelan.com>
To: Vince Mammoliti <vince@cisco.com>
In-Reply-To: <000501ca5899$539eff50$d374740a@cisco.com>
Cc: nanog@nanog.org
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
On Thu, 29 Oct 2009, Vince Mammoliti wrote:
> This current draft
>
> DHCP Authentication
>
> http://www.ietf.org/id/draft-pruss-dhcp-auth-dsl-06.txt
That's what makes protocol wars so much fun. With enough options, almost
any protocol can do almost anything.
As you know, I did my best to kill PPPOx at an ISP and in the IPTV
architecture several vendors were selling at the time. I still
think that sometimes DHCP is the answer, and other times PPPOx is the
answer, but you can usually make either work if necessary. And even
though I chose DHCP, the vendor needed to fix several things. I haven't
kept track if all of them were really fixed.
