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From: ritz@ritz.mordor.com (Chris Mauritz)
Subject: Re: pppd with an ethernet card?
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Organization: Mordor International
Date: Wed, 27 Dec 1995 20:43:08 GMT
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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.  :-)

Chris


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