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Re: PPP over Ethernet?

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Bradley Reynolds)
Thu Jun 4 02:03:42 1998

Date: Thu, 4 Jun 1998 01:55:56 -0400 (EDT)
From: Bradley Reynolds <brad@iagnet.net>
To: dirk@power.net
cc: nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <19980603220556.03197@orlando.power.net>

> I guess the poster wants to connect two ethernet cards directly to
> each other using a crossover cable. This could save the ethernet
> overhead. 

could you explain how ppp encapsulating (etherh+payload)
reduces the overhead?

> Plus it would probably make for easier bonding of multiple
> paralell links. Could be interesting...

buy a 100mb ether card.




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