Re: PPP over Ethernet?

["Roeland M.J. Meyer" <rmeyer () mhsc com>]

Try a combination of SSH and Samba.

At 10:14 AM 6/4/98 -0700, Dave Siegel wrote:
> > 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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