Ted Lemon wrote, around 1/11/07 11:19 AM:
On Nov 1, 2007, at 11:01 AM, Richard Pruss wrote:
The message you quote seems to be a what about the clients that do not
support a new authentication method. The answer is they work as
always with PPPoE.
Richard, this really doesn't address Iljitsch's objection. Existing
DHCP clients DO NOT support this authentication method. From 20k feet
it may look like it's supported because the box was already doing it
with PPPoE, but down on the bare metal of the client's box, no such
functionality exists. Replacing existing DHCP clients is a Very Hard
Problem. You need to explain how you're going to solve this problem,
or else the rest of this discussion is academic.
The selective quote you choose of mine seemed to leave out the answer to
the question you asked:
I said:
"The new services are supported by new equipment and the expectation is
that the customer can take the new gear, put in his old credentials and
come up on the new services."
That means that they have new gear with new stacks, so we simply do not
have the replace existing DHCP clients problem. Typically existing
clients use PPPoE and so their is no problem for them either.
Did thank clear it up?
Thanks for highlighting that I missed this one,
Ric
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