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Do that with FDX Ethernet, no need to add PPP overhead to it. Owen > 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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