On Wed April 22 2009 11:01, Curtis Maurand wrote:
I don't understand why DSL providers don't just administratively down the port the customer is hooked to rather than using PPPoE which costs bandwidth and has huge management overhead when you have to disconnect a customer. I made the same recommendation to the St. Maarten (Dutch) phone company several years ago. They weren't listening either. That way you can rate limit via ATM or by throttling the port administratively.
Most likely because most RADIUS systems can be tied fairly easily directly to the billing/payment system which enables and disables (adds/removes) the customer from radius for payment/non-payment and therefore does not require any "technical" support to turn on/off customers. -- Larry Smith lesmith@ecsis.net