[17570] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: PPP over Ethernet?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Dave Siegel)
Fri Jun 5 14:09:39 1998
From: Dave Siegel <dave@siegelie.com>
In-Reply-To: <199806041405.HAA00659@condor.mhsc.com> from "Roeland M.J. Meyer" at "Jun 4, 98 07:05:13 am"
To: rmeyer@mhsc.com (Roeland M.J. Meyer)
Date: Thu, 4 Jun 1998 10:14:27 -0700 (MST)
Cc: dirk@power.net, nanog@merit.edu
> 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.
SSH does not allow me to access file on the corporate NT server.
PPTP (ala MS VPN) does.
> 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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