Leonard Rosenthol on Wed, 20 Mar 2002 22:40:18 +0100


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Re: [PLUG] "evils of PPPOE"

At 03:28 PM 3/20/2002 -0500, gabriel rosenkoetter wrote: 
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.)


        Interesting point...


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.


        I clarify that statement as "the reason PPPOE was invented" then...


LDR

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