Re: PPP over an Ethernet connection.

["Jens B. Jorgensen" <jjorgens@bdsinc.com>]

It might help if you could add more information about what it is exactly you're trying
to do. You can run PPP over the internet and I'd be happy to send you pre-hack netcat
which will help you do this. I'm not sure the tool I have built though matches what
you're trying to do. Tell me more.

shaul wrote:

> I want to set up a *dynamic* PPP connection over an Ethernet connection (at
> least, that is what I think).
> Can you tell me what are the available tools ?
>
> Can I redirect a terminal to the Ethernet device ? There does not seems to be
> /dev/eth*.
>
> Suppose I'll have to hack some package, which one would you consider first ?
>
> My motivation:
>
>         my_pc <----> "a_router" <----> An_ISP
>
>                  |                 |
>                  |                 |
>                Ethernet         Frame Realy
>
> Now my pc is connected to the "router" by Ethernet.
> The "router" is, actually, a frame relay adapter with routing capabilities. It
> accepts both native Internet protocol (IP) traffic from a direct Ethernet
> connection and IP data encapsulated in Async Point-to-Point Protocol (PPP -
> RFC 1331) or Serial Line Internet Protocol (SLIP - RFC 1055).
>
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