[115757] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Point to Point Ethernet
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (sthaug@nethelp.no)
Wed Jul 8 11:59:46 2009
Date: Wed, 08 Jul 2009 17:59:34 +0200 (CEST)
To: william.allen.simpson@gmail.com
From: sthaug@nethelp.no
In-Reply-To: <4A54C051.6060905@gmail.com>
Cc: nanog@nanog.org
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
> Speaking from a personal interest, has the Point-to-Point Protocol
> stopped being useful?
>
> After all, PPP over Sonet/SDH was specifically designed for just this case.
Absolutely, and it still works great for that purpose.
However, given a provider backbone with Ethernet being the underlying
technology, I don't see why anybody would want to use PPP on top of
Ethernet instead of just plain Ethernet. After all we're *not* talking
about DSL or dialup here, there's no need to authenticate users etc.
Steinar Haug, Nethelp consulting, sthaug@nethelp.no
