From: Paul Kelly (longword at domain esatclear.ie)
Date: Wed 11 Sep 2002 - 07:59:40 IST
Karl Jeacle wrote:
> true that the SpeedTouch Pro has routing capability, but only when
> used in PPPoA mode. i-stream does not use PPPoA. It uses PPPoE, and
> since the SpeedTouch Pro does not have a built-in PPPoE client, it can
> only be used with i-stream as a bridge. This is why it can't route!
So the answer is exceptionally poor choice of router then - but is that
what they're selling with the Multi service? I thought it was a Zyxel
model, but I've never seen a specific model mentioned anywhere on an
Eircom site.
Does anyone know why they went with PPPoE instead of PPPoA? PPPoE seems
to be a dead loss - you lose a percent or two on the bandwidth and if
you're not careful you get hit by the many sites out there that send you
1500 byte packets with the 'Do not fragment' flag set and can't fit the
1492 MTU on PPPoE :-(
Paul.
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