Broadband Subscriber Management
Nathan Ward
nanog at daork.net
Thu Apr 23 12:45:17 UTC 2009
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
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