[17512] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: PPP over Ethernet?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Perry E. Metzger)
Wed Jun 3 23:53:55 1998
To: Zachary DeAquila <zachary@zachs.place.org>
cc: nanog@merit.edu
In-reply-to: Your message of "Wed, 03 Jun 1998 17:59:07 CDT."
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Reply-To: perry@piermont.com
Date: Wed, 03 Jun 1998 23:40:22 -0400
From: "Perry E. Metzger" <perry@piermont.com>
Zachary DeAquila writes:
> Anyone ever heard anything about PPP over Ethernet? Is there an
> encapsulation standard for it?
The idea sounds highly bogus. PPP is a way of adding packetization and
content types to a serial link. Ethernet has both already. Besides,
PPP is a point to point thing, an ethernet is a bus.
.pm
