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North American Network Operators Group Date Prev | Date Next | Date Index | Thread Index | Author Index | Historical Re: PPP over Ethernet?
> 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]
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