Verizon Offering Naked DSL in Northeast...

Tue Apr 19 14:12:19 UTC 2005

> That seems to be how the SBC model works here.  It's not bad, except 
> when they forget to tell you about a new Redback device they turn up.

Or when the tunnel simply doesn't come up because of a typo.  That's 
always a fun one to have SBC to own up to. :)

> In Verizonland here, they will just deliver you a PVC per customer, and 
> you get to pick how you want to provision them (1483/PPPOE/etc).  This 
> seems to be better in some cases, as you can do RFC1483 then and not 
> have MTU issues.  If SBC would run larger MTU's internally so you could 
> do do 1500 with PPPoE, it wouldn't be as bad.

We've been running into problems on some combination of modems and SBC 
DSL where we have to manually set the MTU on the customers CPE to 
something like 1464 for them to get to websites that block ICMP traffic.

At least we found a solution.  For a bit, we couldn't figure out what 
the problem was.

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Matt Taber               tabes at wmis.net
WMIS Internet         http://www.wmis.net
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