RFCs
PPP is defined in RFC 1661 (The Point-to-Point Protocol, July 1994). RFC 1547 (Requirements for an Internet Standard Point-to-Point Protocol, December 1993) provides historical information about the need for PPP and its development. A series of related RFCs have been written to define how a variety of network control protocols-including TCP/IP, DECnet, AppleTalk, IPX, and others-work with PPP.
- RFC 1661, Standard 51, The Point-to-Point Protocol (PPP)
- RFC 1662, Standard 51, PPP in HDLC-like Framing
- RFC 1963, PPP Serial Data transport Protocol
- RFC 1990, The PPP Multilink Protocol (MP)
- RFC 1994, PPP Challenge Handshake Authentication Protocol (CHAP)
- RFC 2153, Informational, PPP Vendor Extensions
- RFC 2284, PPP Extensible Authentication Protocol (EAP)
- RFC 2516, PPP over Ethernet
- RFC 2615, PPP over SONET/SDH
- RFC 2686, The Multi-Class Extension to Multi-Link PPP
- RFC 2687, Proposed Standard, PPP in a Real-time Oriented HDLC-like Framing
- RFC 5072, IP Version 6 over PPP
- RFC 5172, Negotiation for IPv6 Datagram Compression Using IPv6 Control Protocol
- RFC 6361, PPP Transparent Interconnection of Lots of Links (TRILL) Protocol Control Protocol
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