IP is encapsulated in PPP for all practical purposes. PPP can support multiple protocols on a single point to point link in the same way ethernet can support multiple protocols vint At 08:01 AM 3/1/2002 -0500, Bill Cunningham wrote: >Is IP actually encapsulated in PPP, or is PPP and IP sent out at the same >time at different protocol layers? Kinda holding hands in a sense to each >other.