[48915] in North American Network Operators' Group
Cable as Common Carrier (was Re: ATTBI refuses to do reverse DNS?)
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Robert A. Hayden)
Wed Jun 19 15:43:05 2002
Date: Wed, 19 Jun 2002 14:42:04 -0500 (CDT)
From: "Robert A. Hayden" <rhayden@geek.net>
To: North America Network Operators Group Mailing List <nanog@merit.edu>
In-Reply-To: <20020619185439.3E7F4AC@proven.weird.com>
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On Wed, 19 Jun 2002, Greg A. Woods wrote:
> I think that requirement still stands in Canada, but until newer
> standards-compliant cable modems become more common it's "hard" to do
> and so nobody's doing it yet (and there is some whining on both sides).
Our local cable provider pitched an MPLS-based VPN service to us
yesterday. Basicly, they would group, by the MAC of the DOCSIS-compliant
cable modem, our remote users into a common Layer-2 bucket and tunnel them
directly to us, where we would handle DHCP handouts for the PCs and
routing.
Of course, they then told it it was probably a year away and our interest
sagged significantly.
