PPP over Ethernet?

Perry E. Metzger perry at piermont.com
Thu Jun 4 03:40:22 UTC 1998


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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