> From: Ted Lemon, November 01, 2007 8:05 PM > On Nov 1, 2007, at 5:04 PM, Richard Pruss wrote: > > "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? > > So it sounds like what you're proposing is that people who > use this new service will have to connect to the network > through a network address translator box, which will do DHCP > to the center with the authentication information you've > described, and the actual equipment that they own will only > do DHCP to the NAT box, and thus won't need to be modified?
Yes. The Home Gateway model you describe above is certainly a dominant (if not the dominant) model for homes with multiple PCs. (Note: this does not preclude the service provider from concurrently supporting existing DHCP/PPPoE Home Gateways, or even multiple bridged PCs that are bridged onto a DSL line. However clients not going through an "auth" phase will likely be associated with different network resources (such as VRFs) at the BRAS.) Eric _______________________________________________ Int-area mailing list [email protected] https://www1.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/int-area
