[NTLUG:Discuss] Verizon FIOS and PPPoE

[lonny.dahl@verizon.com]

The word we're getting is that PPPoE is going away in favor of DHCP...too
many authentication issues with PPPoE.  So, yeah, you might have to deal
with PPPoE for now, but eventually (VOL hasn't given us any time frame) it
will be gone.

L. Wayne Dahl
Fiber Network Technician
Verizon FTTP Fiber Solutions Center

discuss-bounces at ntlug.org wrote on 03/17/2005 08:34:05 AM:

> Aww man....
> They are pullin uniduct in my Flower Mound neighborhood right now. I
> figured they would try some BS like PPPoE.. I really want to put my
> mailserver at my house.
>
>
>
> Jack Snodgrass wrote:
> > I am going to get 15Meg/2Meg Verizon FIOS installed on monday....
> woo-hoo...
> >
> > They will give me a dinky, little D-Link router that does PPPoE.
> These routers
> > have been optimised to handle the 15meg speed on the WAN port...
something
> > like that...  A normal router that does PPPoE is supposed to work, but
not
> > as fast...
> >
> > Anyway... I'm hoping that I can use my Linux Router that I have set up
with
> > 4 interfaces and not use the D-Link router. I like the way my
> router is set up
> > now with the firewall and port forwarding that I know how to use. If
> > the optimation
> > that Version has done to the Dlink router really is so that it can
> handle more
> > traffic on the WAN port, then I think that my linux pc should be fine.
> > Has anyone
> > else gotten Verizon Fios and tried to use a linux PPPoE client to
connect?
> >
> > Is there a PPPoE server that I can run on linux to test out a PPPoE
linux
> > client... something that will let me set up a private, PPPeE link?
> >
> > Thanks - jack
> >
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