RE: serial-line protocols

["Fook Ming EE" <eeefm () singnet com sg>]

Hi, I think you got to do it at IP level instead of link-level of PPP.

Cheers,
FM

-----Original Message-----
From: Raj Malhotra [mailto:ral.mal () gmail com] 
Sent: Thursday, August 26, 2004 8:08 PM
To: focus-ids () securityfocus com
Subject: serial-line protocols

Hi,

We have two routers connected by fibre running a serial-line protocol
like PPP. If we need to deploy a NIDS running on a linux-box having a
10/100/1000 ethernet card, would an optical-tap with a protocol
converter suffice?

With a serial-line protocol would any synchronization at the protocol
converter be necessary?