Point-to-Point Protocol
Point-to-Point Protocol
[‚pȯin· tü ‚pȯint ′prōd·ə‚kȯl]Point-to-Point Protocol
(communications, protocol)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.