On Wed April 22 2009 11:01, Curtis Maurand wrote: > I don't understand why DSL providers don't just administratively down > the port the customer is hooked to rather than using PPPoE which costs > bandwidth and has huge management overhead when you have to disconnect a > customer. I made the same recommendation to the St. Maarten (Dutch) > phone company several years ago. They weren't listening either. That > way you can rate limit via ATM or by throttling the port administratively.
Most likely because most RADIUS systems can be tied fairly easily directly to the billing/payment system which enables and disables (adds/removes) the customer from radius for payment/non-payment and therefore does not require any "technical" support to turn on/off customers. -- Larry Smith lesm...@ecsis.net
