On Thu, 13 Jun 1996, MegaZone wrote:
> 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.
>
> 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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