Leonard Rosenthol on Wed, 20 Mar 2002 16:10:16 +0100


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Re: [PLUG] "evils of PPPOE"


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!



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