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Author Topic: Advanced PPP features from the dial-up days still live?  (Read 9383 times)

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Re: Advanced PPP features from the dial-up days still live?
« Reply #15 on: August 13, 2015, 04:19:45 PM »

@ejs  - thx very much for that tip about Nitro. This is indeed outside the scope of this thread, which is about PPP.

From what I read, it's a Broadcom-to-Broadcom non-standard feature. Very interesting. deserves and needs a separate thread, and so if anyone finds out some good stuff on it, please contribute to the thread below:

    http://forum.kitz.co.uk/index.php/topic,15947.0.html
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Re: Advanced PPP features from the dial-up days still live?
« Reply #16 on: August 13, 2015, 07:04:48 PM »

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Re: Advanced PPP features from the dial-up days still live?
« Reply #17 on: August 22, 2015, 05:18:58 PM »

here stats from 2 hour'ish session mostly streaming.

Statistics
TUN/TAP read bytes   134876428
TUN/TAP write bytes   3293776427
TCP/UDP read bytes   3458901056
TCP/UDP write bytes   313423933
Auth read bytes   3293777099
pre-compress bytes   4480330
post-compress bytes   4495858
pre-decompress bytes   9993975
post-decompress bytes   13070650
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Re: Advanced PPP features from the dial-up days still live?
« Reply #18 on: May 15, 2018, 05:10:10 AM »

I hear what people said about processing of user data, L4 payload (L4 SDUs or L4 PDUs) by a PPP compressor on DSL. It would cost a lot in CPU cycles and the nodes in question do not have access to long enough buffers full of ingress data, not without introducing latency and guzzling ram per flow a setup that doesn't scale especially because of the ram. In any case that's what servers can and do sometimes do, eg http servers with gzip and a terrifying amount of ram. The access to buffer length thing was true for dialup modems. PCs and ISPs’ PPP servers as compared to dialup modems had more ram, dialup was slower so ingress queues were long enough so that they had access to more ingress data to consider so allowing compression a good longish context to work on in each buffer full.

However.

IP and TCP and TCP+IP header compression ought to be doable as far as I can see.

In fact, leaving aside PPP for a moment, in the case of the stupid PPPoEoA stack you could build a PPPoEoA-speaking compressor in a DSLAM that would knock out 24 - 36bytes of PPPoEoA crap completely. In some cases this would save a whole ATM cell, but not in the particular IP PDU 1500 case unfortunately.

Combining it with saving of part of an IP header or IP+TCP header then you would certainly save a cell with nearly 40 + 24 bytes saved for IPv4, and for IPv6 60+24 bytes which nearly saves you 2 cells (nearly at 96 bytes payload) so sometimes you would save two cells. So for some short packets you would halve the size of the data, for other sizes you would cut it down to one third the size on IPv6. Wouldn’t help applications much because they are often concerned about the turnaround time in a ping-pong/stop-and-wait protocol, or about one-way latency. But it would conserve bandwidth available to other flows where there is a substantial stream of short L3 packets. Perhaps that is too much of a niche.

Combined PPPoEoA + IP (esp IPv6) + TCP gives you an extra ~3% speed with IP 1500 byte PDUs and a massive saving (size cut down to 50%) on each TCP ack.

This kind of thing was found to be worthwhile before with dialup, and the opportunities available with IPv6, ATM and PPPoEoA are even greater.

Does make me wonder, anyway.
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Re: Advanced PPP features from the dial-up days still live?
« Reply #19 on: May 26, 2018, 12:58:00 PM »

This seems to be a theme: vastly overcomplicating.

PPPoA isn't going to be an issue much longer as it's almost entirely gone from UK networks as indeed it has almost everywhere - IP everything, ATM is yesterday's or, more accurately, last century's, technology.

PPP shouldn't be an issue too much longer. 802.1ad allows for replacement. The drive is to reduce the workload on equipment and present a software defined, unified architecture, not start messing around with L3 / L4 proxying to mitigate extra overheads from encapsulation.
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Re: Advanced PPP features from the dial-up days still live?
« Reply #20 on: May 26, 2018, 01:15:59 PM »

i actually think pppoa is ok, its pppoe thats horrible, and only one uk vdsl isp doesnt use it and its also used for g.fast
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Re: Advanced PPP features from the dial-up days still live?
« Reply #21 on: May 26, 2018, 02:04:23 PM »

PPPoE is horrible.
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Re: Advanced PPP features from the dial-up days still live?
« Reply #22 on: May 27, 2018, 12:59:16 PM »

PPPoA is, again, a product of its time. Made sense when DSLAMs were backhauled by ATM, however redundant once ATM is removed.

PPPoE I think got a bad reputation here from when ATM was a thing and PPPoEoA was possible. It had its place but both can be retired in favour of using 'regular' Ethernet mechanisms.
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Re: Advanced PPP features from the dial-up days still live?
« Reply #23 on: May 27, 2018, 03:26:42 PM »

PPPoE is horrible.
Can my VDSL2 Annex B use IPoE with just configuration changes (at vmg1312-b10a / service provider) if it always worked on PPPoE? ( :baby: :fingers:)
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Re: Advanced PPP features from the dial-up days still live?
« Reply #24 on: May 27, 2018, 06:43:27 PM »

It can, but it needs the ISP to implement it.

In the UK most ISP's use PPPoE.
TalkTalk use IPoE.
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Re: Advanced PPP features from the dial-up days still live?
« Reply #25 on: May 27, 2018, 07:12:24 PM »

j0hn, is that TalkTalk ADSL on LLU, straight IP in ethernet frames inside RFC 2684 is side AAL5?

What about TT FFTC?
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Re: Advanced PPP features from the dial-up days still live?
« Reply #26 on: May 27, 2018, 07:40:15 PM »

They use PPPoA on ADSL and IPoE on FTTC. TalkTalk Business wholesale customers use PPPoE.
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Re: Advanced PPP features from the dial-up days still live?
« Reply #27 on: May 28, 2018, 02:46:32 AM »

It can, but it needs the ISP to implement it.

In the UK most ISP's use PPPoE.
TalkTalk use IPoE.

So 2 uk isps I guess.

Sky with DHCP and TT with IPoE.
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Re: Advanced PPP features from the dial-up days still live?
« Reply #28 on: May 28, 2018, 09:54:55 AM »

DHCP just provides IP address, etc, need something to get the DHCP and other packets there and back?

Pretty sure Sky use IPoE with authentication via DHCP options? TT use DHCP but don't worry about requiring a username and password I believe, Openreach populate options fields to allow them to tell which customer should be connecting.
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Re: Advanced PPP features from the dial-up days still live?
« Reply #29 on: May 28, 2018, 02:04:20 PM »

yeah you right did a bit of digging and is IPoE with DHCP auth.  I just knew it wasnt PPPoE.
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