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Re: PPP over Ethernet?
From: dirk () power net
Date: Wed, 3 Jun 1998 22:05:56 -0700
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
Current thread:
- PPP over Ethernet? Zachary DeAquila (Jun 03)
- Re: PPP over Ethernet? Perry E. Metzger (Jun 03)
- Re: PPP over Ethernet? dirk (Jun 03)
- Re: PPP over Ethernet? Bradley Reynolds (Jun 03)
- Re: PPP over Ethernet? dirk (Jun 03)
- Re: PPP over Ethernet? Vijay Gill (Jun 04)
- Re: PPP over Ethernet? Greg Simpson (Jun 03)
- Re: PPP over Ethernet? dirk (Jun 03)
- Re: PPP over Ethernet? NetSurfer (Jun 04)
- Re: PPP over Ethernet? Roeland M.J. Meyer (Jun 04)
- Re: PPP over Ethernet? Phillip Vandry (Jun 04)
- Re: PPP over Ethernet? Dave Siegel (Jun 05)
- Re: PPP over Ethernet? Roeland M.J. Meyer (Jun 04)
- Re: PPP over Ethernet? Roeland M.J. Meyer (Jun 05)
- Re: PPP over Ethernet? Perry E. Metzger (Jun 03)