The CRTC forces Bell to open its ADSL network to competing ISP's. As a direct result of this, Bell forces its high-speed service customers to use the RedBack pppoE mechanisms ("Access Manager" software). The Windoze version of this software can be quite evil, and the Linux version is even more. 50% CPU utilisation for a simple ftp transfer have been reported...
Is there any effort to implement pppoE at the kernel level in 2.3.xx?
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The CRTC forces Bell to open its ADSL network to competing ISP's. As a direct result of this, Bell forces its high-speed service customers to use the RedBack pppoE mechanisms ("Access Manager" software). The Windoze version of this software can be quite evil, and the Linux version is even more. 50% CPU utilisation for a simple ftp transfer have been reported...
Is there any effort to implement pppoE at the kernel level in 2.3.xx?
sigh...
20 years ago people were buying computers to store recipes... and now what is the latest hot thing in the computer industry? Recipes... :)
... just because we can. :)
Let's re-incarnate Visi-Calc or Electric Pencil into a toaster or something