From: bert hubert <ahu@ds9a.nl>
To: lartc@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [LARTC] pointopoint flag
Date: Sun, 25 Mar 2001 19:52:56 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <marc-lartc-98555009706267@msgid-missing> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <marc-lartc-98529443625692@msgid-missing>
On Sun, Mar 25, 2001 at 08:07:48PM +0200, Guy Van Den Bergh wrote:
> > You CAN use Ethernet in a point-to-point configuration, by the way. Saves
> > some IP adresses.
>
> How do you that? PPPoE (PPP over Ethernet)? This is more like ppp
> emulation over ethernet. And thus this introduces protocol overhead.
>
> What do you mean by this? I'm puzzled.
It's still ethernet. But instead of assigning a /30 with 4 IP addresses, you
just route to your device. Not rocket science, just saves IP addresses.
Regards,
bert hubert
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2001-03-25 19:52 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2001-03-22 20:53 [LARTC] pointopoint flag mike stjohn
2001-03-22 22:20 ` Guy Van Den Bergh
2001-03-24 21:47 ` bert hubert
2001-03-25 18:07 ` Guy Van Den Bergh
2001-03-25 19:29 ` Guy Van Den Bergh
2001-03-25 19:52 ` bert hubert [this message]
2001-03-25 20:48 ` Gregory Maxwell
2001-03-25 21:34 ` Guy Van Den Bergh
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