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Re: PPP over Ethernet?


From: "Perry E. Metzger" <perry () piermont com>
Date: Wed, 03 Jun 1998 23:40:22 -0400


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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