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Subject: Re: PPPoE question.
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----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Brian Candler" <B.Candler@pobox.com>
To: "fooler" <fooler@skyinet.net>
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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.