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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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  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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