Filtering PPPoE

[pcpolo]

I’ve seen multiple times that people filter PPPoE traffic, what exactly is this traffic?

[nepalken]

They are PPP packets over Ethernet.

[pcpolo]

Yes but what specifically? Like what applications are they used in? I’m just trying to get a better understanding of it.

[Jerry_Richardson]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PPPoE