I have been using Exam Drill. Its answers to questions about PPP having the ability to use parallel connections have been an unequivical "no".

I have access to a copy of Transender. It state that PPP definitly supports parallel connections. They even quote David Groth's Network+ Study Guide as support. I checked this out and sure enough on page 298 of the 2nd edition it quotes "PPPis used to implement TCP/IP over point-to-point connections (for example, serial and parallel connections)."

Who is right and who is wrong. Both Transcender and Exam Drill don't have content forum questions on their sites, only tech support. I have searched all the RFCs I can find on PPP and any source I could find on the internet about PPP and have come up with nothing. How could David Groth be wrong? Why can't I find anything to back his statement?

This is driving me nuts. I would appreciate any answer supported by cites.
DeanaBo

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Dont worry not on test!!!!!

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PPP supports parallel connections. Exam Drill is wrong, according to my Net+ school book anyway.

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The correct answer is that PPP supports both Serial and Parallel. Slip only supporst Serial. Hope this helps.

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Thanks for the help. I feel alot better about everything except Exam Drill.

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Interesting. I smell an oportunity to learn something here.
First of all I have found Exam Drill an inexpensive and indispensible aid in studying for all of my exams. And when I have an issue with one of their explanations the guys there are ready to discuss it.

I have a long history of being wrong so I probably am again but can anyone give me an example of using PPP over a parallel connection?

I mean potatohead's book is probably right but I thought PPP was mostly used for encapsulating IP trafic over WAN links (always serial).

I have the following from Cisco:
"The only absolute requirement imposed by PPP is the provision of a duplex circuit, either dedicated or switched, that can operate in either an asynchronous or synchronous bit-serial mode, transparent to PPP link layer frames. PPP does not impose any restrictions regarding transmission rate other than those imposed by the particular DTE/DCE interface in use"

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I have been very curious about parallel PPP connections because I have never seen one ( so I can't imagine an example) and the only references to actual PPP parallel connections was an aside in David Groth's "Network+ Study Guide" and the questions in Transcender and Exam Drill.

The only thing I found in my research(and I'm sorry I can't remember exactly where, except it was while reading RFCs) was some mentions of simultaneous serial connections and my inference that this "sounds like parallel communications".

I would love any info on this topic. Thanks for your interest.

Also, I still recommend Exam Drill. My impatience with the wrong answers I've incurred are due to a hugh mistake on my part. Waiting too late to study for this exam!

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I agree with Tater. PPP supports serial and parallel.

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Again I say. I'm right :-) well in my mind I am anyways. Again Best of luck.

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I found this discussion interesting but a bit out of place so I submitted it over on the CCNA forum.

If anyone is interested hereis the link.

http://www.examnotes.net/forums/sho...&threadid=32404

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