Question posted by wolfwalk12 on December 26th, 2012
What Is A Pppoe?
How do I find out what PPPoEis?
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Answer #1: Posted by Yontzsav on April 29th, 2017 2:46 AM
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Pppoe stands for Point-to-Point Protocol over Ethernet. It is a network protocol used for encapsulating data frames over Ethernet networks. Imagine old dial-up connections like a conversation over the telephone between you and your boss. It's just the two of you who can participate in the conversation. But what if your boss wanted to speak to all your team? If your conversation would be a dial-up connection, all your team would have to gather around the same phone earpiece. It would make for a funny and ineffective conversation, wouldn't it? PPP is just like that: only one to one connections are possible. PPPoE changed that and it allowed more client devices to use the same network in order to connect to one single server. It's like your boss speaking with all your team, but you would have a loudspeaker so that you don't have to crowd around one small earpiece.
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