North American Network Operators Group Date Prev | Date Next | Date Index | Thread Index | Author Index | Historical Re: Cable Modem [really more about PPPoE]
On Tue, 26 Jun 2001, Steve Schaefer wrote: > On Tue, 26 Jun 2001, Fletcher E Kittredge wrote: > > > > You provide frustrating few details and a statement "DHCP alone is not > > a viable option in this model." Could you restate more concretely > > what is your design problem which can only be solved by > > ATM/MPLS/PPPoE? I hesitate to answer for fear that there is some > > constraint I don't know about. > > The constraint is that outbound packets need to go to the right ISP. That > is, the packets need to go through the carrier network according to the > business relationship, not according to the destination IP address. > > Some method of identifying the ISP associated with each outbound packet is > necessary. Policy routing, tunnels and PVC's are a few methods. Ditto > VLAN tagging works, too. Ouch:) > > > -Steve > >
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