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Re: PPPOE vs DHCP


From: Jack Bates <jbates () brightok net>
Date: Wed, 26 Jan 2011 08:30:48 -0600

On 1/26/2011 8:12 AM, Paul Stewart wrote:
No, we're not putting ERX's at people's homes ... not sure where you got
that from?   What I was saying is that if you're running PPPOE then you have
have somewhere in the service provider network to "terminate" the
sessions....

Hey. It was the middle of the night. I completely misread which side of the termination you were referring to.

Terminating PPPoE generally isn't much different than terminating VLANs. In Juniper world, it requires the right equipment. Cisco world, it's not generally a big deal.


Jack


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