[17516] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: PPP over Ethernet?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (dirk@power.net)
Thu Jun 4 01:12:58 1998
From: dirk@power.net
Date: Wed, 3 Jun 1998 22:05:56 -0700
To: nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <199806040340.XAA01277@jekyll.piermont.com>; from Perry E. Metzger on Wed, Jun 03, 1998 at 11:40:22PM -0400
I guess the poster wants to connect two ethernet cards directly to
each other using a crossover cable. This could save the ethernet
overhead. Plus it would probably make for easier bonding of multiple
paralell links. Could be interesting...
Dirk
On Wed, Jun 03, 1998 at 11:40:22PM -0400, Perry E. Metzger wrote:
>
> 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
