[17547] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: PPP over Ethernet?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Owen DeLong)
Thu Jun 4 15:47:48 1998
Date: Thu, 4 Jun 1998 12:39:34 -0700
From: owen@DeLong.SJ.CA.US (Owen DeLong)
To: nanog@merit.edu, dirk@power.net
Do that with FDX Ethernet, no need to add PPP overhead to it.
Owen
> 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
>
