Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!wuarchive!uunet!lll-winken!amazon.llnl.gov!oberman From: oberman@amazon.llnl.gov Newsgroups: comp.dcom.sys.cisco Subject: Re: PPP? Message-ID: <1990Aug18.125659.1@amazon.llnl.gov> Date: 18 Aug 90 19:56:59 GMT References: <24747@boulder.Colorado.EDU> Sender: usenet@lll-winken.LLNL.GOV Lines: 23 In article , jh@tut.fi (Juha Heinanen) writes: > > In article <24747@boulder.Colorado.EDU> smb@ulysses.att.com writes: > > We very much want to see async PPP in the server. > > If you had it, how would you use it, eg. does async PPP currently > exist in any of the public domain or commercial TCP/IP packages for > PCs or Macs? Until those support async PPP, I don't see much point > for Cisco to implement it in their servers. Now that the status of PPP has been elevated, it's time to get some implementations in the field. It's never going to happen if every vendor waits until it is more widely avauiilable before implementing it. ANd I have seen one BSD implementation that I could probably get for my systems quite easily. R. Kevin Oberman Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory Internet: oberman@icdc.llnl.gov (415) 422-6955 Disclaimer: Don't take this too seriously. I just like to improve my typing and probably don't really know anything useful about anything.