Scriv, PPPOE is a great approach and is very affective, but it does have its disadvantages as well. The only thing I don't like about it is you need to have better than an "average" wireless connection. We try to do this on every install any way, but stuff just happens sometimes after the install. PPPOE does not like lost packets (at all) and will not authenticate a client on a "marginal" wireless signal in my experience.
PPPOE is not the only way to use radius as authentication. There are a number of ways to authenticate via radius - like MAC addy and IP. There is the Static dynamic IP set up (where the sub always gets the same IP via DHCP server) (or statically assign the IP) and then do MAC authentication via radius. I know you are like I am in that the MAC you would authenticate would be the MAC of the radio you install. Mac -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of John Scrivner Sent: Sunday, April 08, 2007 6:05 PM To: wireless@wispa.org Subject: [WISPA] PPPoE The good, the bad and the ugly please Are any of you running PPPoE on your client connections back to a PPPoE concentrator? Is this a good approach? I have heard that one big advantage of this is that you can setup Radius to set everything up for authentication very easily and that you can set every client up as their own individual subnet so that they are all routed back to your PPPoE concentrator / router in your office. I would think this would address many of the client to client radio traffic concerns of CALEA without changing any APs. Isn't this a fix for that one concern? Does that make sense? If not then why not? I like the idea of easily managing my accounts for turning them on or off for non-payment and automatically setting bandwidth rules. I use Radius in a big way for my existing dialup customer base and this sounds like the berries to me. I welcome other thoughts from those who are using or considering using PPPoE or similar techniques. Any alternatives which work better? Happy Easter guys and gals, Scriv -- WISPA Wireless List: wireless@wispa.org Subscribe/Unsubscribe: http://lists.wispa.org/mailman/listinfo/wireless Archives: http://lists.wispa.org/pipermail/wireless/ -- WISPA Wireless List: wireless@wispa.org Subscribe/Unsubscribe: http://lists.wispa.org/mailman/listinfo/wireless Archives: http://lists.wispa.org/pipermail/wireless/
