[17530] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: PPP over Ethernet?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Roeland M.J. Meyer)
Thu Jun 4 10:14:28 1998
Date: Thu, 04 Jun 1998 07:05:13 -0700
To: dirk@power.net
From: "Roeland M.J. Meyer" <rmeyer@mhsc.com>
Cc: nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <19980603220556.03197@orlando.power.net>
Nah, They never heard of virtual circuits.
Seriously, PPP over IP is a way of building a cheap VPN. The thing is that
SSH already does that job much better.
At 10:05 PM 6/3/98 -0700, dirk@power.net wrote:
>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
>
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