[135528] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: PPPOE vs DHCP
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jack Bates)
Wed Jan 26 09:31:43 2011
Date: Wed, 26 Jan 2011 08:30:48 -0600
From: Jack Bates <jbates@brightok.net>
To: Paul Stewart <paul@paulstewart.org>
In-Reply-To: <07e201cbbd63$005c44d0$0114ce70$@org>
Cc: nanog@nanog.org
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
On 1/26/2011 8:12 AM, Paul Stewart wrote:
> No, we're not putting ERX's at people's homes ... not sure where you got
> that from? What I was saying is that if you're running PPPOE then you have
> have somewhere in the service provider network to "terminate" the
> sessions....
>
Hey. It was the middle of the night. I completely misread which side of
the termination you were referring to.
Terminating PPPoE generally isn't much different than terminating VLANs.
In Juniper world, it requires the right equipment. Cisco world, it's not
generally a big deal.
Jack
