STOP DOING PPPoE There were no layers supposed to be between L2 and L3; YEARS OF DSL yet NO REAL-WORLD USE FOUND for anything but DHCP. Wanted to connect to the internet over ethernet? We had a tool for that: It was called RFC2464. "Yes please give meCHAPof something. Please give me IPCP of it” - Statements dreamed up by evil wizards. LOOK at what network providers have been demanding your Respect for all this time, with all the wires &RFCS we built for them. (This is REALPPPoE done by REAL network providers ping: sendmsg: Message too Long; ping: sendmsg: Message too Long; ping: sendmsg: Message too Long; “Hello I would like MTU 1492 please"; They have played us for absolute fools

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[–] 7 points 8 months ago (1 child)

This is so nerdy I love it

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  • [–] 3 points 8 months ago

    Pretend I edited and posted that xkcd about specific knowledge

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    [–] 7 points 8 months ago (1 child)

    OK I absolutely hate this meme format but I'm gonna make an exception for this one, since I too am a victim of PPPoE even for gigabit fiber.

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  • [–] 5 points 8 months ago

    I’m on fiber and my provider being a dusty DSL provider decided to use PPPoE over fiber. I got migrated to their sibling company which supposedly doesn’t need that nonsense, but they haven’t removed the requirement yet and I might need an entirely different NID for it. It’s all horribly annoying

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  • [–] 3 points 8 months ago

    I'm still on DSL

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  • [–] 2 points 8 months ago

    Cries in Dial-up

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