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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.
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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.