Re: [LARTC] pointopoint flag

Linux Advanced Routing and Traffic Control

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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

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