Re: [PLUG] "evils of PPPOE"

[gabriel rosenkoetter <gr@eclipsed.net>]

On Wed, Mar 20, 2002 at 10:00:48AM -0500, Leonard Rosenthol wrote:
>          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!

Ummm... PPPoE also enforces sign-on-before-service, which is
actually quite handy. (Ask an College or University's network
administrator who's probably still trying to figure out a good way
to keep people from walking onto his campus and being able to do
evil things to the outside world without it ever getting traced back
to him.)

PPPoE may not be a good idea, but it's not true that the "only
reason" for its existence is to bill you by the minute.

-- 
gabriel rosenkoetter
gr@eclipsed.net

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