On 29/03/2017 14:44, Philip Homburg wrote:
Hi Jan,
In your letter dated Wed, 29 Mar 2017 08:14:59 +0200 you wrote:
You would be surprised how many residential customers still have CPE in bridge mode and are connecting to PPPoE service using Windows (or any other OS) PC using a PPPoE dialer, some of them even using multiple parallel PPPoE sessions from multiple computers sitting on the same network.
I literally do not know of a single case where somebody around me was running ppp on Windows 7 (or later) or on a recent version of MacOS. That just doesn't seem to happen around here (in .nl).
You live in .nl ;) Other areas are different. There are other continents, too ;)
Many people here connect a Linux box using PPPoE, but in that case the Linux box is configured as a router.
Note that the ISP I'm using hands out FritzBox CPEs which officially do not even support bridging a VDSL connection.
So I'm very curious.
Do ISPs officially support this? Are there ISPs that describe how to put a DSL model in bridge mode and the configure Windows 10 to connect?
Sure :)
How does that work with iphones, android, etc. Do people bridge PPPoE to wifi and then run PPPoE on a phone or tablet?
it doesn't. Some people just want to have few computers at home connected and they run multiple PPPoE sessions. Remember, we are documenting a current reality here, not what we want to do in the future.
How did multiple sessions work with IPv4. Did every session get its own public IPv4 address using PPP IPCP?
Yes ;)
How does that work with the /64. Are multiple static /64s assigned to a particular customer? In the case of multiple /64s, do hosts have sufficiently stable PPPoE IDs that you can assign the right one to each host?
In this case you need to delegate /64 for WAN dynamically. If host with PPPoE is in question, you don't have to do static. Most bullet-proof today for network behind the CPE is static. Cheers, Jan