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From: ksand@Apple.COM (Kent Sandvik)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.aux
Subject: Re: PPP?
Message-ID: <12703@goofy.Apple.COM>
Date: 23 Mar 91 22:05:30 GMT
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In article <2761@pacific.mps.ohio-state.edu> kilcup@pacific.mps.ohio-state.edu (Greg Kilcup) writes:
>The subject just about asks the question: does anybody
>know about PPP under A/UX?

I have not heard of any, but if someone has access to a PPP that makes
use of raw sockets with the BSD low level socket interface or something
similar, maybe there's a way to hook this to the kernel. Alas, the 
streams interface in A/UX is not the SysV.3 one, so there could be some
problems if someone tries to write a streams module for PPP, also the
TCP/IP protocols are not implemented as streams modules so you can't
push the PPP module in as part of the low level behaviour of the TCP/IP
protocol suite.

Otherwise PPP looks great on the specs. Has any universities out there
done any PPP implementations for any of the UNIX kernels?

Kent Sandvik




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