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- 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: <ppp-faq/part1_764536807@cs.uni-bonn.de>
- Followup-To: poster
- Date: 7 Apr 1994 18:20:55 GMT
- Organization: computer science department, university of Bonn, Germany
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- 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: bloom-beacon.mit.edu comp.protocols.ppp:3268 news.answers:17780 comp.answers:4801
-
- Archive-name: ppp-faq/part1
- Version: $Revision: 3.9 $
- Last-modified: $Date: 94/01/31 20:10:14 $
- URL: http://cs.uni-bonn.de/ppp/part1.html
- 1. LETTER FROM THE EDITOR
-
- Important Changes
-
- Introduction
-
- Information wanted
-
- 1.0 Important Changes
-
- I added a pointer to the alpha test ppp software for linux mentioned in
- the newsgroup.
-
- 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.
-
- Ignatios Souvatzis <ignatios@cs.uni-bonn.de>
-
- *** Read on here. Cover page here.
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- 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
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