Enabling Subscriber-to-Subscriber Communication in an NBMA DSL Network

摘要

Residential broadband digital subscriber loop (DSL) networks are used for many applications, such as surfing the Web, ICQ and e-mail. One of the more performance-intensive applications is distributed gaming. Participants in an online game may subscribe to multiple ISP's, or they may share the same ISP. In the case where several gamers share the same ISP, they will likely all reside in the same non-broadcast multiple access (NBMA) network. In this situation, manual configuration of each subscriber's machine is often required for them to communicate. In this paper we detail a method that removes the need for manual intervention, and enables communications between machines on the same NBMA network.