OT: VERY SIMPLE HOME NETWORK

[Bill Vermillion]

In the last exciting episode of the filePro saga, 
Fairlight was heard to say:" 
if: Sun, Dec 26 23:47  
then: nm = Fairlight 
if:
then: show nm < "said:"  
Fairlight said: 

> On Sun, Dec 26, 2004 at 11:33:50PM -0500, Bill Vermillion may or may not have
> proven themselves an utter git by pronouncing:
> > 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.

> I think you missed part of what I said. BellSouth uses both.
> The grandfathered resold lines IgLou has here are bridged PPoA.
> The newer ones are mandatorily PPoE for residential for all
> 3mbit, and for residential 1.5mbit and lower. Businesses can
> still get bridged PPoA for 1.5mbit. But BellSouth lines -can-
> do PPoA...they just hate doing it.

Go back and read your original post on this.  Nowhere did
you mention PPoA.  You mention PPoE in both bridged mode and with a
router device.

In this area we carried two modem styles, one for the PPoA for
Sprint and one for the PPoE of BS.  

The transport for both is ATM, but BS does ethernet conversions at
both ends.

Using PPoE is far more common and Linux and xBSDs all ship with
a pppoe as part of the base OS.   While the pppoa is an additional
program to be compiled &/or installed from what I've seen.

Bill
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