From: Paul Kelly (longword at domain esatclear.ie)
Date: Wed 11 Sep 2002 - 11:11:07 IST
kevin lyda wrote:
> why do they (they meaning any of the adsl/cable providers) use pppoe
> anyway? it's always seemed like an odd concept since ppp was created
> for serial lines, not ethernet.
PPP is handy because it gives the ISP username/password control and like
DHCP it provides the client with the correct default route and DNS
address information.
Paul.
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