Point-to-Point Protocol

communications, protocol (PPP) The protocol defined in

RFC 1661, the Internet standard for transmitting networklayer datagrams (e.g. IP packets) over serial

point-to-point links.

PPP has a number of advantages over SLIP; it is designed to

operate both over asynchronous connections and bit-oriented

synchronous systems, it can configure connections to a

remote network dynamically, and test that the link is usable.

PPP can be configured to encapsulate different network layer

protocols (such as IP, IPX, or AppleTalk) by using the

appropriate Network Control Protocol (NCP).

RFC 1220 describes how PPP can be used with remote bridging.

Usenet newsgroup: news:comp.protocols.ppp.

A paper on PPP.

(1994-12-13)