Before the globalization of wireless networks, most people in the world, who didn't have lines (cable or Ethernet) linked directly to the Internet, had to use telephone lines, the most widely used ...

The PPP (Point-to-Point Protocol) multiplexing/demultiplexing discussed in RFC 3153 is designed to reduce the size of the PPP header to increase throughput. PPP ...

Point-to-Point Protocol (PPP) is used by millions of Internet users who need to connect their home computers to the server of an Internet service provider. Majority of these users have traditional ...

The point-to-point protocol, abbreviated PPP, is often used by computers to talk to internet service providers. If you have an office or home network using ethernet cables, your devices may use the ...

I don't have a practical problem that this applies to I am simply trying to understand better. <BR><BR>I have deployed a few VPNs using PPTP, L2TP/IPSec, and OpenVPN and it seems like most of the ...

In the UK the ISPs use or tend to use PPPoA, and that is set in the modem device. But i've heard that in the US they use PPPoE. I spoke to a UK ISP, and he said (rightly, I tested it), you can use ...

We met Mr. Murphy, of “What can go wrong, will” infamy, in the introduction to failure modes and the discussion of failure modes at the foundation levels. Now we will learn his tricks on shared media ...

A VPN ( or Virtual Private Network) is a way of creating a secure connection ‘to’ and ‘from’ a network or a computer. The VPN uses strong encryption and restricted, private data access which keeps the ...