A pointed look at the point-to-point protocol

descriptionPublicationkeyboard_double_arrow_right Article 01 Jan 1999Publisher:Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)Journal:IEEE Internet Computing, volume 3, pages 85-88 (issn: 1089-7801,

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Authors: C. Metz;

doi: 10.1109/4236.780964

A pointed look at the point-to-point protocol

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While players like TCP and RSVP are usually considered the stars in the theater of Internet protocols, perhaps the most pervasive, extensible, underpublicized, and underappreciated protocol within the IP stack today is the point-to-point protocol (PPP). The author considers the basics of PPP.

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