From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: bert hubert Date: Sun, 25 Mar 2001 19:52:56 +0000 Subject: Re: [LARTC] pointopoint flag Message-Id: List-Id: References: In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: lartc@vger.kernel.org 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 -- http://www.PowerDNS.com Versatile DNS Services Trilab The Technology People 'SYN! .. SYN|ACK! .. ACK!' - the mating call of the internet _______________________________________________ LARTC mailing list / LARTC@mailman.ds9a.nl http://mailman.ds9a.nl/mailman/listinfo/lartc HOWTO: http://ds9a.nl/2.4Routing/