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Point To Point Protocol over Ethernet
and
Point To Point Protocol over ATM

These are different VC Encapsulations. They differ in some ways (the most important is that PPPoA allows for MTUs of 1500), but there is mostly no difference in speed between the two.

Here's a more in-depth discussion, although relative to BellSouth, but good info: /faq/1416


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last modified: 2004-01-02 12:09:43


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