Reference document

Org
IETF
Pubnum
RFC 1661
Date
1994-07
Version
Title
The Point-to-Point Protocol (PPP)

Applicability

The Point-to-Point Protocol (PPP) provides a standard method for transporting multi-protocol datagrams over point-to-point links. This document defines the PPP organization and methodology, and the PPP encapsulation, together with an extensible option negotiation mechanism which is able to negotiate a rich assortment of configuration parameters and provides additional management functions. The PPP Link Control Protocol (LCP) is described in terms of this mechanism.

Responsible Party

Name
NCIA/NSII

Status

URI
https://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc1661.txt

History

Flag Date RFC Version
added 1998-11-10 0.1
changed 2005-09-16 0.7
changed 2017-01-14 9-19 10
changed 2022-12-20 14-62 15
UUID
2fbea435-0f0a-438e-a1f1-302e7dd445d0

Relationships

This standard is used by the following service profiles: