<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div>On 29/04/2009, at 9:42 AM, Mark Smith wrote:</div><div><blockquote type="cite"><div><br>Look up "IPoE" in Google (as silly as the acronym is), all those <br>problems have or are being solved (e.g. cable networks use DHCP, and all <br>the Ericsson DSLAMs that a lot of ISPs have are (and have been for a <br>long time) "IPoE" capable)). Cisco's ISG product can apparently turn <br>DHCP leases into RADIUS accounting records for example.</div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>You still need the same boxes (eg. Cisco10ks, ASRs, Juniper E series, Redback etc). to do this. The number of "sessions" they do when running in this mode doesn't increase. So, ultimately you've really just swapped one problem for another as far as I can see.</div><div><br></div><div>(Most of these platforms can run in a "smart" mode where you send it frames (PPPoE, q-in-q stacked customer-per-vlan, fixed IP stuff and then they 'figure it out" and turn it into a "service").</div><div><br></div><div>If you run a flat vlan, then you need to do work to ensure customers can't compromise the service via injecting their own frames (eg. pretending to be a DHCP server). Certainly a lot of the DSLAM and other equipment vendors can do this, but it's another thing you need to do.</div><div><br></div><blockquote type="cite"><div><br><br>In a "native", not wholesale ADSL environment, the 8 byte per-packet <br>overhead and BRAS processing load, MTU issues and hair-pinning of PPPoE <br>encapsulated traffic are very expensive, when you consider that the only <br>real purpose of converting a multi-access medium like Ethernet into a <br>point-to-point virtual link is to be able to authenticate the user. If <br>you already know where they live (and DSLAMS can insert that circuit-id <br>in DHCP requests), why do you care what username / password they use?<br></div></blockquote></div><div><br></div><div>Username/Password is good for ensuring it's really the customer using it.</div><div><br></div><div>I'm not against ditching PPP but it's a well understood thing and easy to do in a wholesale model as NBN will be.</div><div><br></div><div>However, a per-user VLAN might be nice too if the aggregation can be sorted out (imagine BIG vlan rewrite switches!).</div><div><br></div><div>-- </div><div apple-content-edited="true"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0; "><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; "><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; "><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div>Matthew Moyle-Croft </div><div>Networks, Internode/Agile<br>Level 5, 162 Grenfell Street, Adelaide, SA 5000 Australia<br>Email: <a href="mailto:mmc@internode.com.au">mmc@internode.com.au</a> Web: <a href="http://www.on.net/">http://www.on.net</a><br>Direct: +61-8-8228-2909<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre; "> </span><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre; "> </span> Mobile: +61-419-900-366<br>Reception: +61-8-8228-2999 Fax: +61-8-8235-6909<br></div></div></span></div></span></div></span> </div><br></body></html>