Subject: Re: Needing help with preventing IP theft
To: Dan Debertin <airboss@bitstream.net>
From: David Evans <dfevans@bbcr.uwaterloo.ca>
List: tech-net
Date: 08/11/2000 19:42:32
On Fri, Aug 11, 2000 at 05:26:39PM -0500, Dan Debertin wrote:
>
> DSL works a bit differently than cable modems. I have never seen a DSL
> implementation that uses PPPoE. Must be a cable modem thing....
>
Quite a bit of the stuff in Canada (operated by Bell Nexxia and others) use
PPPoE. The Nortel DSL products are just bridges.
> > PPPoE is not a solution to this problem.
>
> I did not say "PPPoE". I said "PPPoATM".
>
In this case I'm not sure that there's much of a difference. Whether you
run PPPoE over a modem bridge or PPPoA over something exotic you *can* still
solve the ARP problem, it seems to me.
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