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From: [email protected] (Ignatios Souvatzis)
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Subject: comp.protocols.ppp part1 of 8 of frequently wanted information
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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!)
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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  <[email protected]>


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