PPP over Ethernet?

Thu Jun 4 17:14:27 UTC 1998

> 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 at 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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