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| genre = [[Internet]]

| license = [[BSD]]-like licenses. Not all of them apply to all parts of pppd

| website = {{URL|httphttps://ppp.samba.org}}

| repo = {{URL|https://github.com/paulusmackppp-project/ppp}}

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'''Point-to-Point Protocol daemon''' '''(PPPD)''' is the [[daemon (computing)|daemon]] that implements [[Point-to-Point Protocol]] (PPP). PPP is used to manage network connections between two nodes on [[Unix-like]] [[operating system]]s. It is configured using [[command-line argument]]s and [[configuration file]]s.

'''PPPD''' is the '''[[Point-to-Point Protocol]] [[daemon (computing)|daemon]]''' which is used to

manage network connections between two nodes on [[Unix-like]] [[operating system]]s. It is configured using [[command-line argument]]s and [[configuration file]]s.

While it has initially been used to manage only [[dial-up Internet access|dial-up access]], it is also used to manage [[broadband]] connections such as [[Digital subscriber line|DSL]], if [[Point-to-Point Protocol over Ethernet]] (PPPoE) or [[Point-to-Point Protocol over ATM]] (PPPoA) is used.