O Plameras wrote:
Voytek Eymont wrote:
On Mon, December 11, 2006 11:21 am, Scott Waller (Lots of Watts) wrote:
Finally changed over to Layer2 1.5 meg
blah blah blah. And am having problems with my setup.
Scott, dumb question:
I thought about this.
what's the advantage of having a 'Layer2' connection over the usual
'userid/password/login' connection ?
Better throughput than Layer3, in general. Devices on Layer2 work
less as hard than
devices on Layer3. Layer3 assembles data before send and dis-assembles
at receive.
Layer2 does not. So, less latency.
Not quite right, you still have layer 2 frames which are disassembled
and reassembled. However your device is operating as a simple ethernet
(or ATM if your ISP supports it) bridge rather than also encapsulating
the traffic in PPP which is the norm, hence less overheads.
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