What is PPP?

[Henry Spencer]

In article <2121 at ncr-sd.SanDiego.NCR.COM> randys at otl.SanDiego.NCR.COM (Randy Smerik) writes:
>>PPP isn't at all bad, especially if ...
>
>I'll bite ... What's PPP?

PPP is the Point to Point Protocol, aka "son of SLIP".  It's SLIP
re-engineered into an industrial-strength protocol, including some
limited error detection, provisions for automatic configuration, and
the ability to run over more kinds of links.  It's probably somewhat
more complicated than it needs to be (whereas SLIP was definitely a
bit simpler than it needed to be), but it looks tolerable.  It's a
draft RFC right now, soon to be a real one.
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