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Cygnus has tools that let you build SHH on WinNT. 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, [email protected] 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 >> > >> >> ___________________________________________________ >> Roeland M.J. Meyer, ISOC (InterNIC RM993) >> e-mail: <mailto:[email protected]>[email protected] >> Internet phone: hawk.mhsc.com >> Personal web pages: <http://www.mhsc.com/~rmeyer>www.mhsc.com/~rmeyer >> Company web-site: <http://www.mhsc.com/>www.mhsc.com/ >> ___________________________________________ >> SecureMail from MHSC.NET is coming soon! >> > > >-- >Dave Siegel (520)572-9041 (work) >Sr. Network Engineer (520)990-4883 (mobile) >Frontier Globalcenter http://www.rtd.com/~dsiegel/ >[email protected] [email protected] > ___________________________________________________ Roeland M.J. Meyer, ISOC (InterNIC RM993) e-mail: <mailto:[email protected]>[email protected] Internet phone: hawk.mhsc.com Personal web pages: <http://www.mhsc.com/~rmeyer>www.mhsc.com/~rmeyer Company web-site: <http://www.mhsc.com/>www.mhsc.com/ ___________________________________________ SecureMail from MHSC.NET is coming soon!
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