On Wed, Aug 02, 2000 at 09:34:08AM -0600, Arthur H. Edwards wrote: > I'm a bit confused. On a normal dial-up I have been using PPP and do > have a static IP address. If ADSL is using PPP what about DSL prevents > PPP from doing the same thing?
Dialup is point-to-point, hence the natural application of the "Point-to-Point protocol". DSL is a shared medium, and thus PPP has to be "hacked" to work. -- 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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