Re: [PLUG] "evils of PPPOE"

[Leonard Rosenthol <leonardr@lazerware.com>]

At 11:20 PM 3/19/2002 -0500, Jon Galt wrote:
> On Thu, 14 Mar 2002, Leonard Rosenthol wrote:
>
> >          Also, for businesses they will most likely give you a block of
> > statics rather than dynamics or the evils of PPPOE.
>
> PPPoE is irritating and wierd to me, with a static IP, but are there
> actual security or other issues with it?

        It's not security-issue evil - it's technically and 
philosophically evil.  The only reason that PPPOE exists is to provide 
ISP's with a way to do to the Internet what the Telco's do with POTS - bill 
you by the minute!  And the technical aspects of how it's implemented, as 
it's name implies, should just give anybody the willies!


LDR

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Leonard Rosenthol                            <mailto:leonardr@lazerware.com>
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