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Re: PPP

2002-03-06 00:10:03
Here is a question that will tax your synapes to bursting point!

How is PPP and TCP/IP libs "wired" together?  Like, DO I (OSI 8) call TCP
and it calls IP and down the 
chain till it spills over and gets real physical (OSI 1)? I am confused.


At 10:02 AM 3/5/02 -0500, you wrote:
whoa, it's in the TCP/IP suite, it's not. So let me get this straight. TCP
and UDP are part of IP. TCP provides error sum UDP doesn't and is therefore
faster than TCP. They are encapsulated in IP, which is put into the data
bitstream of a PPP frame. Layer 1 is the physical layer, are bitstreams sent
at that level. BTW I have 56K dial-up no ISDN or DSL.
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