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Path: sserve!manuel!munnari.oz.au!uunet!sun-barr!ames!haven.umd.edu!darwin.sura.net!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!think.com!cayman!brad From: brad@Cayman.COM (Brad Parker) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd Subject: Re: [386bsd]ppp Message-ID: <BRAD.92Sep17095707@caicos.Cayman.COM> Date: 17 Sep 92 13:57:07 GMT References: <0ehcWLS00j6DRINF5Y@andrew.cmu.edu> Sender: news@cayman.COM Organization: Cayman Systems Inc., Cambridge, MA Lines: 23 Nntp-Posting-Host: caicos In-reply-to: tj2n+@andrew.cmu.edu's message of 16 Sep 92 01:06:31 GMT In article <0ehcWLS00j6DRINF5Y@andrew.cmu.edu> tj2n+@andrew.cmu.edu (Tao Jiang) writes: Does anyone know whether PPP has been ported to 386bsd or not ? If so, where I can find the source or binary? What's the difference between ppp and slip? I ported ppp to 386bsd 0.0; I have not fired it up with 0.1 (but I will shortly). I believe it will work fine. I would *strongly* recomment you have a 16550A serial chip as the com.c drivers I have need the extra time the fifo's allow. (I looked at the FAS drivers - they should be more forgiving but are not yet ported to 386bsd as far as I know) the code is on ftp.cayman.com in pub/ppp. PPP (or, the "point to point" protocol) is an IETF standard technique for shipping datagrams over a serial line. One advantage over slip is that options can be negotiated, including header compression. -brad -- A metaphor is like a simile. Brad Parker Cayman Systems, Inc., Cambridge, Ma. brad@cayman.com