Point-to-Point Protocol


Point-to-Point Protocol

[‚pȯin· tü ‚pȯint ′prōd·ə‚kȯl] (communication) A standard governing dial-up connections of computers to the Internet via a telephone modem. Abbreviated PPP.

Point-to-Point Protocol

(communications, protocol)(PPP) The protocol defined inRFC 1661, the Internet standard for transmitting network layer datagrams (e.g. IP packets) over serialpoint-to-point links.

PPP has a number of advantages over SLIP; it is designed tooperate both over asynchronous connections and bit-orientedsynchronous systems, it can configure connections to aremote network dynamically, and test that the link is usable.PPP can be configured to encapsulate different network layerprotocols (such as IP, IPX, or AppleTalk) by using theappropriate 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.