6.4: What is PPP?
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This article is from the AmiTCP/IP FAQ, by Mike Meyer with numerous contributions by others.
6.4: What is PPP?
PPP is Point to Point Protocol, another way of connecting to your network. It is a more robust protocol than SLIP, and addresses many of SLIP's weaknesses. However it is much more difficult than SLIP to implement, but the advantage over SLIP make it the serial protocol of the future. (this is my opinion ;-)
For a detailed description of PPP consult a book on TCP/IP or get the PPP faq available via anonymous FTP. <ftp://RTFM.MIT.EDU/usenet/>
PPP is described in RFCs 1332, 1333, 1334, 1376, 1377, 1552, 1570, 1598, 1619,1638 and 1663 phew!
A SANA-II PPP driver is available from Aminet. <ftp://aminet/comm/net/PPP1_3.lha> This is a non registered version. A shareware version with many more features is also on Aminet but requires a key file, which you must pay the author $15. Consult the documentation for more details on this.
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