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PPP
PPP is the Point-to-Point-Protocol. The successor to SLIP, PPP provides router-
to-router and host-to-network connections over both synchronous and
asynchronous circuits.
PPPoA (RFC 2364)
The Point-to-Point Protocol (PPP) provides a standard method for transporting
multi-protocol datagrams over point-to-point links. This document describes the
use of ATM Adaptation Layer 5 (AAL5) for framing PPP encapsulated packets.
PPPoE (RFC 2516)
This document describes how to build PPP sessions and encapsulate PPP
packets over Ethernet. PPP over Ethernet (PPPoE) provides the ability to
connect a network of hosts over a simple bridging access device to a remote
Access Concentrator.
Protocol
A protocol is a set of rules for interaction agreed upon between multiple parties
so that when they interface with each other based on such a protocol, the
interpretation of their behavior is well defined and can be made objectively,
without confusion or misunderstanding.
PVC
A permanent virtual circuit is a connection-oriented, permanent leased-line circuit
between end stations on a network over a separate ATM circuit.
RFC
Request for Comments is the document series, begun in 1969, that describes the
Internet suite of protocols and related experiments. Not all RFCs describe
Internet standards, but all Internet standards are written up as RFCs.
RFC 1483
This is a multi-protocol encapsulation over AAL-5: two encapsulation methods for
carrying network interconnect traffic over ATM AAL-5. The first method allows
multiplexing of multiple protocols over a single ATM virtual circuit. The protocol of
a carried PDU is identified by prefixing the PDU by an IEEE 802.2 Logical Link
Control (LLC) header. The second method does higher-layer protocol
multiplexing implicitly by ATM Virtual Circuits (VCs).