OT: VERY SIMPLE HOME NETWORK

[Bill Vermillion]

I know you'll find it hard to believe, but on Sun, Dec 26 23:05 , Fairlight
actually admitted to saying:" 

> Simon--er, no...it was Bill Vermillion--said:
> > 
> > We used Westell products when we were selling DSL services.
> > In Sprint territory we used the modem/router/firewall device as
> > Sprint provided ATM services let us use that, but the Bell South
> > connections used a bridge device.

> Not sure to what you're referring. BellSouth offers two types
> of circuits here. Well, all 3mbit must be PPPoE, but I have a
> pure bridged connection. All my traffic is ATM. Even if you
> have the PPPoE stuff, usually they make the modem do PPPoE
> -and- NAT, but that's not what I wanted for one place, where I
> had a specific router/firewall requirement. So I had them use
> the modem configured in bridged mode and just did PPPoE through
> the bridged modem. But it's all using ATM up here as far as
> I've been told.

Sprint uses PPoA and BellSouth uses PPoE.  Sprint it ATM end to end
with no conversions to ethernet.  It actually increases performance
somewhat - but not so you'd notice - but it reduces overhead
on both ends.

Bill
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