[17521] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: PPP over Ethernet?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Bill Woodcock)
Thu Jun 4 03:08:44 1998
Date: Wed, 3 Jun 1998 23:57:51 -0700
From: woody@zocalo.net (Bill Woodcock)
To: dirk@power.net, nanog@merit.edu
The standard for PPP over Ethernet is L2TP. The pre-standard proprietary
implementations were L2F and PPTP, from Cisco and Microsoft, respectively.
I believe you'll find Internet Drafts on all three.
The idea is neither "highly bogus" nor used in association with 10Base-T
cross-over cables. It's used to tunnel ATCP, IPCP, IPXCP, et cetera over
IP.
-Bill Woodcock
