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Re: PPP over Ethernet?

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Greg Simpson)
Thu Jun 4 02:18:53 1998

Date: Thu, 4 Jun 1998 02:11:35 -0400 (EDT)
From: Greg Simpson <gws@sweet.com>
To: Bradley Reynolds <brad@iagnet.net>
cc: dirk@power.net, nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <Pine.GSO.3.96.980604015348.5337E-100000@nic.iagnet.net>

I can think of applications where bonding wireless interfaces could be 
useful..

-g

> > 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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