Path: senator-bedfellow.mit.edu!bloom-beacon.mit.edu!panix!news.mathworks.com!newsfeed.internetmci.com!news.uoregon.edu!vixen.cso.uiuc.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!Germany.EU.net!news.dfn.de!gina.zfn.uni-bremen.de!marvin.pc-labor.uni-bremen.de!news.uni-stuttgart.de!news.rhrz.uni-bonn.de!ignatios From: ignatios@cs.uni-bonn.de (Ignatios Souvatzis) Newsgroups: comp.protocols.ppp,news.answers,comp.answers Subject: comp.protocols.ppp part1 of 8 of frequently wanted information Supersedes: Followup-To: poster Date: 26 Jul 1995 18:24:35 GMT Organization: computer science department, university of Bonn, Germany Lines: 100 Approved: news-answers-request@MIT.Edu Expires: 23 Aug 1995 18:20:02 GMT Message-ID: NNTP-Posting-Host: theory.cs.uni-bonn.de Summary: This document contains information about the Internet Point-to-Point Protocol, including a bibliography, a list of public domain and commercial software and hardware implementations, a section on configuration hints and a list of frequently asked questions and answers on them. It should be read by anybody interested in connecting to Internet via serial lines, and by anybody wanting to post to comp.protocols.ppp (before he/she does it!) Xref: senator-bedfellow.mit.edu comp.protocols.ppp:11710 news.answers:49338 comp.answers:13317 Archive-name: ppp-faq/part1 Version: $Revision: 3.18 $ Last-modified: $Date: 94/11/21 20:10:10 $ URL: http://cs.uni-bonn.de/ppp/part1.html PPP FWI Letter from the editor 1. LETTER FROM THE EDITOR Important Changes Introduction Information wanted DISCLAIMER 1.0 Important Changes 1994-NOVEMBER-16 Updated part about NeXT PPP. Added some commercial products from my email backlog. OLDER CHANGES Updated part about SVR4 ppp (5.3.1). (5.6.3) added blurb about ISPA, a msdos computer "packet driver" which - among other de facto used protocols - also supports PPP over ISDN, hopefully as of the RFC. few days or weeks ago added some vendors of PPP soft- and hardware in part7/part8. I want to express, that that list, as any other information in this postings/document, can't contain all products available, as I can't possibly read all publications/advertisements all over the world and put them in; I only include what people tell me or I stumble about. See the disclaimer. VERY OLD CHANGES switched to another PPP relevant RFC search machine. It is still situated in Europe (this time in Germany), so ppl. shouldn't use it at regular intervals if from abroad. 1.1 Introduction I took the Information in Ed Vielmetti's FAQ files, my personal experience, and lots of stuff from comp.protocols.ppp, and built a new document. Later, lots of people contributed at one or the other place. This document will be reposted fortnightly, as soon as it is fairly stable, and weekly till then. Changed sections should be marked in the Table of Contents with a ! or + for something got added or - for something got deleted. 1.2 Information Wanted If you have experience with anything mentioned here, or know of newer versions, or of versions of software for other hardware/OS, or ... send me mail. I'll include it and possibly mention your name, if you don't express otherwise. The last paragraph applies explicitly to the authors themselves! Keep me informed, please. If you send me complete entries, consider to get the HTML version from http://theory.cs.uni-bonn.de/ppp/part?.html and send me an edited version. DISCLAIMER I want to express that any information in this posting or its follow-ups is provided on an "AS-IS" basis as a service to my colleagues at other Universities, without any implied or explicit warranties. To be more precise: I don't promise that all freely available programs are contained, or that programs described here are (still) available, or ar suited for anything useful better or worse than others. If you wan't me to include s.th., tell me about it; but I don't promise that I'll include it the same day or week or at all. I don't promise that commercial products contained here exist, that all commercial products in existance are contained here, or that products contained here are suited for anything useful better or worse than others. If any vendors feel their product should be included, and tells me about it, I probably would do it; but I don't promise that I'll include it the same day or week or at all. After all, doing this FAQ isn't my primary duty at work. Ignatios Souvatzis -- -- Ignatios Souvatzis - Solaris 2.1: it's slow, needs 200M of disk space and comes without C compiler, which makes it remarkably close to MS-Windows. oleg@gd.cs.csufresno.edu