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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_843589201@cs.uni-bonn.de>
- Followup-To: poster
- Date: 8 Oct 1996 19:18:10 GMT
- Organization: computer science department, university of Bonn, Germany
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- Expires: 5 Nov 1996 19:20:02 GMT
- Message-ID: <ppp-faq/part1_844802402@cs.uni-bonn.de>
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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: informatik.tu-muenchen.de comp.protocols.ppp:17754 news.answers:83692 comp.answers:21550
-
- Archive-name: ppp-faq/part1
- Version: $Revision: 3.20 $
- Last-modified: $Date: 1995/09/11 20:10:06 $
- 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
-
- CD-ROM policy
-
- DISCLAIMER
-
- 1.0 Important Changes
-
- 1995-JULY
-
- Started to implement explicit CD-ROM policy.
-
- Updated once again part about NeXT PPP.
-
- Updated some commercial products from my email backlog.
-
- OLDER CHANGES
-
- none.
-
- VERY OLD 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.
-
- 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.
-
- CD-ROM policy
-
- This sample of documents was collected by me from the various sources,
- including the Usenet news and direct contributions from others. I
- started with it before the outbreak of the CD ROM plague, so the special
- issue of ppl. collecting machine readable data, storing them to master
- disks and selling copies thereof never occured.
-
- Personally, I think that pressing higly dynamic data collections (like
- FAQ lists) to write-once media is a very stupid thing to do. However,
- there might be reasons to include the PPP-FAQ with other data; e.g.,
- when preparing a NetBSD distribution on CD-ROM, an off-line readable
- copy of the PPP FAQ might be helpful for those wanting to set up a PPP
- connection from their newly aquired NetBSD for the first time... how
- could they access the online copy without having a working PPP
- connection?
-
- In the last few years I got lots of requests to allow the PPP FAQ to be
- added to such CD-ROMs. As I never had asked for such permissions from
- the contributors, I was not able to say "yes", even if I would have
- given the permission for my own work.
-
- If you contribute s.th., please state clearly if you would allow
- inclusion of the information to CD-ROM collections.
-
- At the moment, I can't give the permission to copy this stuff to CD-ROMs
- which are sold afterwards, even if I would like to, for the stated
- reasons.
-
- 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@cs.uni-bonn.de>
-
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