what is the difference between hdlc and ppp protocol

Answer Posted / abhi

Differences between HDLC and PPP are
(1) HDLC is cisco proprietary while PPP is an open standard.
(2) HDLC does not provide authentication while PPP provides authentication like PAP and CHAP.
(3) HDLC does not support compression while PPP support compression.
(4) HDLC supports synchronous networks only while PPP supports both synchronous and asynchronous networks.

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