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On Wed, 19 Jun 2002, Greg A. Woods wrote: > I think that requirement still stands in Canada, but until newer > standards-compliant cable modems become more common it's "hard" to do > and so nobody's doing it yet (and there is some whining on both sides). Our local cable provider pitched an MPLS-based VPN service to us yesterday. Basicly, they would group, by the MAC of the DOCSIS-compliant cable modem, our remote users into a common Layer-2 bucket and tunnel them directly to us, where we would handle DHCP handouts for the PCs and routing. Of course, they then told it it was probably a year away and our interest sagged significantly.
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