On Tue, Aug 01, 2000 at 03:56:35AM -0500, Sean Richardson wrote: > ... Apparently some of their initial customers > were setting up home networks and not masking the machines behind a > router(of whatever sort) and so their machines were each grabbing an IP > address. This was quickly eating up their valuable address space. Well, > rather than configure their end of the system so users could only get on > address they just switched to PPPoe so they didn't even have to worry > about it.
And how exactly would they "configure their end of the system so users could only get one address" ? Worked much with DSLAMs? How about HFC data modems? Smart people *can* get IPs that haven't been assigned to them, and it's a PITA to root them out. PPPoE, while a hack, addresses this concern for providers. I wish we used it. As the net becomes unfriendly, blame the idiots who force providers to become unfriendly before you assume the provider is at fault. -- Nathan Norman "Eschew Obfuscation" Network Engineer GPG Key ID 1024D/51F98BB7 http://home.midco.net/~nnorman/ Key fingerprint = C5F4 A147 416C E0BF AB73 8BEF F0C8 255C 51F9 8BB7
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