Date: Wed, 12 Apr 2006 22:59:52 +0800 From: "fooler" <fooler@skyinet.net> To: "Brian Candler" <B.Candler@pobox.com> Cc: freebsd-net@freebsd.org, Julian Elischer <julian@elischer.org>, "M. Parsons" <mrparsons@gmail.com> Subject: Re: PPPoE question. Message-ID: <0f0e01c65e41$c127bd10$42764eca@ilo.skyinet.net> References: <ac8741ae0604110730g24852ba3w6c47906b9d76e911@mail.gmail.com> <443BDE05.8040204@elischer.org> <0cba01c65de0$f656f7f0$42764eca@ilo.skyinet.net> <20060412123254.GB81569@uk.tiscali.com>
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----- Original Message ----- From: "Brian Candler" <B.Candler@pobox.com> To: "fooler" <fooler@skyinet.net> Cc: "Julian Elischer" <julian@elischer.org>; "M. Parsons" <mrparsons@gmail.com>; <freebsd-net@freebsd.org> Sent: Wednesday, April 12, 2006 8:32 PM Subject: Re: PPPoE question. > On Wed, Apr 12, 2006 at 11:27:00AM +0800, fooler wrote: >> >what the heck is synchronous pppoe? we connect to pppoe via ethernet so >> >it is already synchronous (?) >> >> set speed sync > > And how does that change the pppoe ethernet frames? nothing change and still the same... ethernet frames are at layer 2 while synchronization (either asynchronous or synchronous) is at layer 1... synchronous is much better than asynchronous for ethernet links... fooler.
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