[17529] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: PPP over Ethernet?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jay R. Ashworth)
Thu Jun 4 10:02:35 1998
Date: Thu, 4 Jun 1998 09:44:48 -0400
From: "Jay R. Ashworth" <jra@scfn.thpl.lib.fl.us>
To: nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <199806040657.XAA07292@shell.zocalo.net>; from Bill Woodcock <woody@zocalo.net> on Wed, Jun 03, 1998 at 11:57:51PM -0700
On Wed, Jun 03, 1998 at 11:57:51PM -0700, Bill Woodcock wrote:
> 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.
Yes, Bill, but over _IP_... not over a _raw_ ethernet cable; as Vijay
pointed out, the Ethernet cards are going to apply some sort of L2
ethernet framing regardless of what you feed them; the original poster
appeared to want to run PPP at layer 2, instead of it's customary layer
2.5. :-)
Cheers,
-- jra
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