Day 4. PPPoE

CCNA 200-101 ICND2 Exam Topics

Image Implement and troubleshoot PPPoE

Key Topics

Today’s review covers concepts and configurations of PPP over Ethernet (PPPoE), which is a technology used with digital subscriber line (DSL) to provide Internet service providers (ISPs) a way to track and authenticate customers.

PPPoE Concepts

PPP can be used on all serial links, including those links created with dialup analog and ISDN modems. To this day, the link from a dialup user to an ISP, using analog modems, likely uses PPP, as shown in Figure 4-1.

Figure 4-1 Typical PPP Connection to ISP

In addition, ISPs often use PPP as the data-link protocol ...

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