Point to Point Protocol over Ethernet (PPPoE) and Point to Point Protocol over ATM (PPPoA) are both technologies that offer a provider the opportunity to roll out broadband services. This document will show why PPPoE should be chosen over PPPoA. Both PPPoE and PPPoA offer many of the same advantages; to begin we'll exam the mutual advantages they share. End user authentication to the network, forces the end user to authenticate to a radius server before being allowed access to the network.

Then a group of IP addresses (subnet) from the server will be forwarded to the DHCP server and assigned to PCs in LAN when PC tries to get IP address from DHCP server in router.

PPPoA is very similar to PPPoE, although they are not compatible with each other. A few ISPs in Australia use PPPoA now.

Bruce Schneier is an internationally renowned security technologist and author has found many security flaws in Microsoft's PPTP implementation and only in Microsoft's implementation, they are as follows: Microsoft's PPTP server allows attacks to sniff passwords across the network, break the encryption scheme and read confidential data. anyone can cause a Microsoft PPTP server to go belly up. Well, anyone who can see the server.

PPPoE is a common authentication and connection handling protocol for DSL connections. When you sign up with a DSL ISP, they supply you with a computer program which allows you to "log in" to their network. This software is usually a re-branding of existing PPPoE software, most commonly "Enternet".

I have a Vigor 2700 or 2800 ... which firmware should I be using, there are several available that I see.

Different levels of Speed can be set by userid in a product like ServPoET. Maybe you want to charge your users by the hour or minute you could also charge your users by the "byte". ServPoET, offer the ability to roll out Dynamic Service Selection. This option allows you to set up different services and allows customers the ability to log in to them if you've set that up in your profile.

PPPoE simplifies and enhances the end-user experience by allowing the dynamic selection of service offerings or retail ISPs in wholesale networks, much as TV viewers select channels. With PPPoE, access control, billing and service type can be controlled per-user offering ISPs many new ways of increasing revenues and offering new services. When a router receives the frame, it reads the control information provided by the CPE then it strips the control information from the frame.

DHCP and PPPoE are alternate protocols used to assign your Lightning DSL account a public IP address. In every instance where you require access to the internet, you must be assigned an IP address to exchange information with other IP hosts. Most Lightning DSL installations use DHCP to assign addresses for a leased period. Usually, you will not need to do more than plug in your modem and set up line state, before you are assigned an address.

No. PPPoE is a proprietary method of creating a virtual connection between an ISP's network and a client machine. Currently it has not been endorsed or accepted by any relevant Internet standards bodies. The new revision of the DI-701's firmware enables it to support PPPoE. The new firmware is now available for download.

Debian Installer, starting with February 2007, supports installing a system via PPPoE and will configure the system accordingly. At the regular Debian Installer boot line just append modules=ppp-udeb. e.g.: type "installgui modules=ppp-udeb" to start a graphical installation via PPPoE

Point to Point Protocol over Ethernet is a proposal specifying how a host personal computer (PC) interacts with a broadband modem (i.e. xDSL, cable, wireless, etc) to achieve access to the growing number of High speed data networks. Relying on two widely accepted standards, Ethernet and the point-to-point protocol (PPP), the PPPoE implementation requires virtually no more knowledge on the part of the end user other than that required for standard Dial up Internet access.

Keeping the user interface simple is critical for keeping user-generated errors down yet many other non-PPPoE methods require substantial user configuration of the modem and, in some cases, require users to install ATM network interface cards (NICs) in their personal computers, all of which requires substantial user technical knowledge. In PPP over Ethernet, each session learns the Ethernet address of the remote peer to create a unique session identifier.