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Re: Point to Point Ethernet
From: William Allen Simpson <william.allen.simpson () gmail com>
Date: Wed, 08 Jul 2009 11:50:41 -0400
Speaking from a personal interest, has the Point-to-Point Protocol stopped being useful? After all, PPP over Sonet/SDH was specifically designed for just this case. Once upon a time, it worked well for intra-site connections, as originally specified in RFC1619: PPP encapsulation over high speed private point-to-point links, such as intra-campus single-mode fiber which may already be installed and unused. It was only after others crammed stuff in to make it work on inferior quality long distance links that it became more expensive and complicated. Still, it has all the testing and link configuration mentioned. And very low overhead. And works on copper wiring, too....
Current thread:
- RE: Point to Point Ethernet, (continued)
- RE: Point to Point Ethernet Frank Bulk (Jul 08)
- Re: Point to Point Ethernet William Herrin (Jul 08)
- Re: Point to Point Ethernet Mikael Abrahamsson (Jul 08)
- Re: Point to Point Ethernet Marshall Eubanks (Jul 08)
- Re: Point to Point Ethernet William Herrin (Jul 08)
- Re: Point to Point Ethernet sthaug (Jul 08)
- Re: Point to Point Ethernet William Herrin (Jul 08)
- Re: Point to Point Ethernet Mikael Abrahamsson (Jul 08)
- Re: Point to Point Ethernet Mikael Abrahamsson (Jul 08)
- Re: Point to Point Ethernet sthaug (Jul 08)
- Re: Point to Point Ethernet William Allen Simpson (Jul 08)
- Re: Point to Point Ethernet sthaug (Jul 08)
- Re: Point to Point Ethernet Andre Oppermann (Jul 08)
- Re: Point to Point Ethernet Mikael Abrahamsson (Jul 08)
- RE: Point to Point Ethernet Tomas L. Byrnes (Jul 08)
- Re: Point to Point Ethernet Randy Bush (Jul 08)
- Re: Point to Point Ethernet sthaug (Jul 08)
- RE: Point to Point Ethernet Tomas L. Byrnes (Jul 08)