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Re: [PLUG] Verizon FIOS..Any thoughts?
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Howdy,
On Tue, 25 Jul 2006, Daniel.G.Roberts@sanofi-aventis.com wrote:
> What is PPOE or PPPOE
There's some info on PPPOE (PPP over Ethernet) here:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pppoe
It's a protocol that runs on top of TCP/IP, that, according to the
following document, has a 0.53% overhead:
http://www.dslreports.com/faq/11721
PPPOE is commonly used on DSL.
> I gather that in my area of greater Trenton NJ PPPOE is used..
> Is there an impact on Linux somehow?
Well, if you use their supplied router, there's no impact on Linux
whatsoever, aside from the 0.53% overhead :-)
If you want to configure a Linux-based router yourself rather than using
theirs, it means you can't just grab an IP using DHCP, you have to setup
PPPOE. Which works fine, it's simply an extra step :-)
-Eric
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