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From: aggarwal@NISC.JVNC.NET (Vikas Aggarwal)
Newsgroups: comp.protocols.tcp-ip
Subject: Protocol field in PPP packets
Message-ID: <9101192245.AA00821@nisc.jvnc.net>
Date: 19 Jan 91 22:45:22 GMT
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Maybe this has been discussed before or maybe its too obvious, but if
I construe things correctly, every PPP packet has a "protocol" field
which identifies the packet (IP, CSLIP, DECnet, etc.).

Unless a number of protocol connections are established concurrently over
one link, isn't that an antithesis of what CSLIP is all about (redundant
information after the initial setup) ?? Or maybe I *am* reading the RFC
with too many protocols in my fuzzy fuzz !!


 -vikas
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