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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