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#! rnews 1323 bsd Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!nntp.coast.net!chi-news.cic.net!newsfeed.internetmci.com!news.mathworks.com!fu-berlin.de!zrz.TU-Berlin.DE!cs.tu-berlin.de!sandmann.prz.tu-berlin.de!loch.in-brb.de!redfalls.in-brb.de!bluesprings.in-brb.de!bluesprings.in-brb.de!not-for-mail From: nuggets@bluesprings.in-brb.de (Lars Hentschke) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: pppd with an ethernet card? Date: 28 Dec 1995 08:15:41 GMT Organization: Brandenburg Individual Network e.V. Lines: 18 Message-ID: <4btjnd$cgi@bluesprings.in-brb.de> References: <4bs5hm$dae@crl9.crl.com> <DK9Ivw.GJ3@ritz.mordor.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: bluesprings.in-brb.de X-Newsreader: TIN [UNIX 1.3 950824BETA PL0] Chris Mauritz (ritz@ritz.mordor.com) wrote: : Christine Maxwell (kaila@crl.com) wrote: : : Is it possible to use pppd with an ethernet card such as ed1? If so, how : : would you go about setting it up? : : I'm not sure I understand why one would want to speak ppp over ethernet. : What's wrong with plain ol' boring tcp/ip? This isn't Coherent, they : FreeBSD has real TCP/IP. :-) iij-ppp over 115200 and enabled compression allows upto 70k/s (normally 11k/s) Horrible speed - if you use a line with 10MBit ... (and a P133!!!) This would be an interesting experiment. Lars.