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Date: Fri, 27 Sep 2002 17:13:51 +0200
To: Jason Hunt <leth@primus.ca>
From: Jacques Caron <Jacques.Caron@IPsector.com>
Subject: Re: getting wi running as a bridge
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At 16:04 27/09/2002, Jason Hunt wrote:
>On Thu, 26 Sep 2002, Jacques Caron wrote:
>
> >
> > Or one might be able to imagine some form of bridging over PPP over
> > Ethernet over WLAN... ;->
> >
>
>Pseudo-Wires? :)
>
>Take a look at http://www.ietf.org/html.charters/pwe3-charter.html
>
>I've read through some of the drafts, and it looks useful in certain
>scenarios.  Encapsulating Layer 2 inside of Layer 3 seems kind of wrong
>though.

You mean, like L2F, PPTP or L2TP? Quite common, though, it appears...

Jacques.


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