> Once upon a time Scott Roberts shaped the electrons to say...
> >Could you elaborate a little on IP in PPP in IP and why is this bad?
>
> People dial into the PM, telnet to the host, then start PPP *there* then
> this is run back to the PM.
>
> So, you have a TCP/IP link FROM the PM to the host, this then carries the
> PPP headers et all back across to the PM and the user. And PPP is carrying
> their TCP/IP traffic.
>
> So you have (TCP/IP(PPP(TCP/IP)))
>
> You've added a lot of overhead to this connection, which adds up. You
> also run the risk that some of the PPP traffic trips over one of the Telnet
> control characters - unless you set the async map up for this.
This is what my problem is...
Does anyone know what the control characters are and how to set the async
map for this
>
> Yes this can be done. Yes I've seen sites actually doing this. No I would
> never encourage anyone to do this unless they had a comm server that could
> not do PPP.
>
> -MZ
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