PPPOE vs DHCP

Wed Jan 26 14:30:48 UTC 2011

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