A collection of networking protocol modules that implement the Point-to-Point Protocol used for DSL connections, dial-up links, VPN tunnels, and mobile broadband. It includes the generic PPP core plus encapsulations like PPPoE (used by most consumer DSL ISPs), PPTP, L2TP, and MPPE compression, rather than code for any specific piece of hardware.
This is not actually a hardware driver directory; it is the kernel's implementation of the Point-to-Point Protocol and its common encapsulations such as PPP over Ethernet, PPTP, and L2TP. It remains essential for DSL connections, dial-up, VPN clients, and mobile broadband dialers across countless deployments worldwide.
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Not a driver directory: contains PPP protocol/channel/encapsulation modules (e.g. generic PPP, PPPoE, PPTP/L2TP support), not hardware-bound device driver code.