PPPoE to sbc dsl

[Jonathan Hutchins]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Charles Steinkuehler [mailto:charles at steinkuehler.net]

> Since it's linux,
> you can run FreeS/WAN (IPSec for VPN connections), snmp for stuff like
> MRTG, ssh, and pretty much anything else you want.

Now here's something that's puzzled me - Multi-Router Traffic Graphing
(MRTG) is apparently only useful if you're an ISP or larger corporate site
with multiple redundant external connections.  Why would you run such a
thing on a PPPoE system with one connection?