Main Page | See live article | Alphabetical index PPPOE or PPPoE, point-to-point protocol over ethernet, is a network protocol for encapsulating PPP frames in Ethernet frames. It used mainly with cable modem and DSL services. It offers standard PPP features such as authentication, encryption, and compression. PPPOE was devloped by UUNET, Redback, and RouterWare. The protocol is published in RFC 2516. See also: PPPOA External link RFC 2516 - A Method for Transmitting PPP Over Ethernet (PPPoE) This is a stub article. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it. This article is from Wikipedia. All text is available under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License.