Re: Broadband Subscriber Management

[Nathan Ward <nanog () daork net>]

On 24/04/2009, at 12:23 AM, William McCall wrote:

> My understanding of the PPPoA/E deal is that SPs (originally) wanted  
> to
> prevent some yahoo with a DSL modem from just being able to hook in to
> someone's existing DSL connection and using it, so they decided to
> implemement PPPoA and require some sort of authentication to prevent  
> this
> scenario.

Also, DSL was the upgrade from dialup in many places, and dialup is  
generally PPP.

For ISPs, the re-engineering required north of the last mile is much  
less, particularly in the billing/accounting systems that no one wants  
to touch because they were written by that coder who left a few years  
ago and work just fine.

--
Nathan Ward