Adam Morrison wrote: > "Stanislav Malyshev a.k.a Frodo" wrote: > > > > s>> As it seems to me now, I will either have to start learning the > > s>> PPP source, or get myself another router. > > > > Router would be not bad :) If you can't or won't, you will have to make > > some PPP - or fool pppd into thinking that you have serial line (like > > writing gateway from /dev/ptyXX to your network card) or write your own > > PPP implementation... > > People, THINK. > > Suppose you managed to hack something like that, what good would it do? > > What would these ethernet frames look like on the wire? What would > their `type' field contain? How would the PPP implementation know who > it should send these PPP-over-ethernet frames to? > > Obviously, you can't just replace the point to point link the PPP > implementation thinks it is using with a multi-point link and have it > just work. RFC 2516 is an informational RFC published by UUNET and > other companies involved with a similar setup to the one described in > the original message. (In their case, they're interested in using > PPPoE between customer' PC and *DSL devices on.) > > Regardless, from reading the original message, I seriously doubt this > is what <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> is looking for. (I also doubt > whatever device he's using supports PPPoE. It was published on > February '99.) > > To comment on the original question, that setup as described looks > rather convoluted to me. Has the ISP in question stated they offer > such a service? > > ================================================================= > To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with > the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command > echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] PPP stands for Point to Point Protocol. This protocol can not be run on a shared bus network like Ethernet. It can only run on an interface like RS232 or other serial link. I don't see why you need PPP to run over Ethernet. If you will be more specific, I may be able to give you other solution then using PPP over Ethernet. Valentin
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