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Re: SLIP VS PPP

  • From: fahad@cs.pitt.edu (Fahad A Hoymany)
  • Date: Sun, 30 Apr 1995 13:18:22 -0500, 30 Apr 1995 18:18:37 GMT

Bill Schultz (guru@deltanet.com) wrote:

  <snip>

: P.S.: to stay a bit on the subject of this newsgroup, I note that the current
: definition of PPP over SONET/SDH is RFC1619 but I did not specifically spot
: an RFC for PPP over ATM, even though it is defined for several other media.

: On the other hand, a SLIP like usage of ATM appears to be defined by
: RFC1577, IP and ARP over ATM.

: Does anyone know if PPP is one of the encapsulated protocols envisioned
: by RFC1483, Multiprotocol Encapsulation over ATM?

 So, doesn't it defeat the whole purpose of running PPP to implement it on
 top of ATM?  PPP, like SLIP, is developed to allow the TCP/IP protocol run 
 over slow links, but if you have a fast link why would you want to run
 PPP?

Fahad