[141853] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Yup; the Internet is screwed up.
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Chris Adams)
Sun Jun 12 15:31:47 2011
Date: Sun, 12 Jun 2011 14:31:37 -0500
From: Chris Adams <cmadams@hiwaay.net>
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Once upon a time, Barry Shein <bzs@world.std.com> said:
> The attraction of DSL was, among other things, that it was nailed down
> to one and only one service provider, you couldn't just "dial" some
> other provider like with ISDN.
When BellSouth switched their DSL from PVC-per-customer to PPPoE, it was
set up with the ability for a single line to be "subscribed" to multiple
providers. The domain in the username used for PPPoE authentication was
to determine to which provider the session was connected.
I don't know if that capability was ever used (or even actually
available).
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Chris Adams <cmadams@hiwaay.net>
Systems and Network Administrator - HiWAAY Internet Services
I don't speak for anybody but myself - that's enough trouble.
