RE: [Nolug] cox new orleans outage? - Cause and Explanation

Hi Ron.

Shoot me your phone number and I can tell for sure. Perhaps there is a
remote DSLAM in your neighborhood.

Bridged Encapsulation. It means that all you need is a "dumb" ADSL modem
because the data looks like it is coming from an EtherNet connection.

For anyone running a stand-alone router this shouldn't be a problem since
just about all of them have PPPoE built in. But if you are running a Linux
system as the router then you would need a PPPoE driver.

I also offer bridged connections, but at 1.5M/256K, not the new 3M/384K
speed.

John

    John Souvestre - Southern Star - (504) 888-3348 - www.sstar.com

-----Original Message-----
From: owner-nolug@joeykelly.net [mailto:owner-nolug@joeykelly.net] On Behalf
Of Ron Johnson
Sent: Monday, August 02, 2004 3:43 PM
To: NOLUG ML
Subject: RE: [Nolug] cox new orleans outage? - Cause and Explanation

On Mon, 2004-08-02 at 15:08 -0500, John Souvestre wrote:
> Hi Ron.
>
> For general info please see http://www.sstar.com/svc_rate.html#personal.
>
> If you are curious about the 3M/384K ADSL I can fill you in. It requires
> that you be within 13K feet rather than 18K for normal ADSL. It is only

Mmmm, that probably shoots me down right there.

> available via PPPoE (or PPPoA, depending on vendor), not bridged.

What does "bridged" mean? Presumably it has something to do with
"regular Ethernet".

I remember "way back" that bridges and brouters were pretty
common in the Ethernet world, but haven't heard about them in
5+ years, Since Switches Took Over The World.

> The same equipment you have now should work, except for needing something
to
> handle the PPPoE. Most of the routers will do it, XP will handle it and I
> understand that there is a driver for Linux.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-nolug@joeykelly.net [mailto:owner-nolug@joeykelly.net] On
Behalf
> Of Ron Johnson
> Sent: Monday, August 02, 2004 2:58 PM
> To: NOLUG ML
> Subject: RE: [Nolug] cox new orleans outage? - Cause and Explanation
>
> On Mon, 2004-08-02 at 13:54 -0500, John Souvestre wrote:
> > Hi Dave.
> >
> > [sales pitch]
> >
> > I offer about the same and give NOLUG members a 5% discount to boot.
I'm
> > just about the have the new 3M ADSL available, also.
>
> Oooh. Tell us more!

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