• DocumentCode
    1536622
  • Title

    A pointed look at the point-to-point protocol

  • Author

    Metz, Christopher

  • Author_Institution
    DCisco, Syst., USA
  • Volume
    3
  • Issue
    4
  • fYear
    1999
  • Firstpage
    85
  • Lastpage
    88
  • Abstract
    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
  • Keywords
    Internet; transport protocols; IP stack; Internet protocols; PPP; RSVP; TCP; point-to-point protocol; Authentication; Compression algorithms; Cryptography; Data security; Displays; Encapsulation; Monitoring; Payloads; Protocols;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Journal_Title
    Internet Computing, IEEE
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • ISSN
    1089-7801
  • Type

    jour

  • DOI
    10.1109/4236.780964
  • Filename
    780964
    • Link To Document
    https://search.isc.ac/dl/search/defaultta.aspx?DTC=49&DC=1536622