On Fri, 2012-10-19 at 15:50 -0500, Mike Hammett wrote: > What we're (well, I am anyway) saying is that the way > the WISP industry does it... is sub-optimal.
The way YOU are doing it may be sub-optimal. It is not an industry wide problem. There are ways to accomplish what you want. > The customer should be able to supply whatever device they want, be > handed up to a configured maximum number of public IP addresses (specified > per account), but the CPE has managed all account authorization. You are missing a key component here. It is NEVER the CPE that manages anything. Even in the cable world. It is the NETWORK that manages the CPE. > The customer should still be permitted to pass 1500 byte packets. The > customer shouldn't have any configuration on their behalf. You know... > how cable does it. Your presumptions and statements tell me you really don't understand what happens in a DOCSIS environment. -- ******************************************************************** * Butch Evans * Professional Network Consultation * * http://www.butchevans.com/ * Network Engineering * * http://store.wispgear.net/ * Wired or Wireless Networks * * http://blog.butchevans.com/ * ImageStream, Mikrotik and MORE! * * NOTE THE NEW PHONE NUMBER: 702-537-0979 * ******************************************************************** _______________________________________________ Wireless mailing list Wireless@wispa.org http://lists.wispa.org/mailman/listinfo/wireless