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Morning Star PPP At A Glance (PPP version 1.4.1, May 27, 1994)
Standards Support:
- The Internet standard Point to Point Protocol (PPP) as defined in
RFCs 1548, 1332, 1333, 1334, and 1549, with
- Link-level error detection (16 or 32 bit FCS)
- Asynchronous control character mapping
- Packet size negotiation at connection time
- Physical link loopback detection
- IP address negotiation and assignment
- PPP Addr/Ctl field and Protocol field compression
- Link-level authentication by PAP or CHAP
- Link status monitoring by LQM
- The popular Serial Line Internet Protocol (SLIP), as described in RFC 1055
- automatically detects whether other end does TCP header compression (CSLIP)
Optimal Performance:
- `VJ' TCP packet header compression as described in RFC 1144
- TCP `fast queue' for priority transmission of interactive packets
- STREAMS tty module reduces context switches by factor of up to 1500
- PPP CCP link-level compression with Predictor-1
- Asynchronous speeds as high as UNIX provides, usually 38400
- Synchronous speeds to 64Kb/sec over SPARCstation native serial ports
- Synchronous speeds to T1 (1.544 Mb/sec) or CEPT (2.048 Mb/sec) using our
SnapLink(tm) SCSI-attached high speed synchronous serial interface
Ease of Management:
- Easy and extremely flexible configuration
- Transparent on-demand link establishment and idle line disconnection
- Flexible `chat script' for connection management
- Adjusts to other end's parity
- Flexible daemon implementation
- Operates as either the remote (calling) or hub (answering) site
- Uses most asynchronous modems or dedicated lines, over the workstation's
native serial ports or most aftermarket expansions
- Shares modems with interactive users, and other applications like UUCP
- PPP configuration/negotiation problems reported in English
- NIT support on SunOS (etherfind, tcpdump, etc.)
- Monitors link status, reliability, and performance
- Multiple line failover for redundancy and high availability
- Many features are provided to help work around deficiencies in other PPPs
- Thorough, readable documentation includes examples and troubleshooting tips
Powerful Security Features:
- Link-level peer authentication by PAP or CHAP, and periodic re-authentication
- Packet filtering and logging by protocol, source, destination,
source routing, etc.
- Tunnels hidden network via TCP over existing internet
- Encrypts traffic between known-secure networks
- Negotiates through security barriers like SecureID
- Returns appropriate ICMP Destination Unreachable codes
- Works with dialback modems
Wide industry support:
- Currently runs on
- SPARC (SunOS 4.1 through 4.1.3) - SPARC (Solaris 2.1 through 2.3)
- Solaris/x86 2.1 - Unixware 1.1
- Interactive UNIX (Release 3.2 v3.0) - Silicon Graphics (IRIX 4.0.x)
- IBM RS/6000 (AIX 3.2.5) - DECstation (Ultrix 4.2 and 4.3)
- SCO Xenix System V.2.3.4 - BSDI BSD/386 1.1
- HP 9000/[78]00 series (HP-UX 9.0.1) - Sun-3 (SunOS 4.1.1)
- NeXT (NEXTSTEP 3.2 on M68K, Intel) - SCO UNIX (SysV/386 3.2.2 or 3.2.4 with TCP 1.2)
- Future Projects
- various SVR4 on i386/i486 - IRIX 5.*
- other CCP compression standards - SNMP support for most platforms
- Interoperates with network connectivity providers
- PSInet - Merit - NEARnet - CSN
- OARnet - Alternet - BARRNet - most EUnet members
- CICnet - JvNCnet - MSEN - ANS
- CERFnet - PREPnet - Sesquinet - NorthwestNet
- AARNet - UKnet - PIPEX - Demon Internet Services
- CyberNET - NETCOM - OLEANE - Magnadata
- any other network that provides dialup access via SLIP or PPP
- Interoperates with other asynchronous and synchronous PPPs and SLIPs
- Telebit NetBlazer - Livingston Portmaster IR-4
- 3Com NetBuilder - NAT LANB/820
- Proteon cnx500 - Cayman GatorBox
- Brixton Systems BrxPPP - KA9Q
- MERIT's MacPPP - ISC SLIP
- Network Systems 6400 - Novell LAN WorkPlace
- Novell MP Router - Datability terminal server
- FTP Software PC/TCP - Intercon TCP/Connect II
- Wellfleet - cisco AGS, CGS, IGS, 500-CS, STS-10
- BSDI PPP - HP PPL (SLIP)
- Xylogics Annex-3 terminal server
- Marble Associates Teleconnect
- The popular free UNIX PPPs
- Works with any asynchronous dial-up modem; pre-configured for
- Most Telebit modems - Codex 3260 series
- NEC N9631 - AT&T 2296
- UDS V.3224 and V.3229 - Forval SA9600, SA14400
- AT&T Datakit - Practical Peripherals 9600SA
- Hayes V-series Ultra SmartModems
- US Robotics V.32 and V.32bis
- Digicom 9624E+ and V.32bis
- Hayes ISDN System Adapter
- SPARCbook-II internal V.32bis modem
You can get all our marketing literature and the entire user guide via
anonymous FTP from ftp.MorningStar.Com/pub/ppp/, in either
user-guide-2up.ps.Z (nicely formatted PostScript) or user-guide.shar.Z
(shell archive of troff sources and more configuration examples); or
we'll be happy to send them to you via electronic mail or even on
paper. For more information, contact Dean Schell or Kate Murphy of
our Marketing group:
Morning Star Technologies
3518 Riverside Drive, suite 101
Columbus OH USA 43221-1754
+1 614 451 1883 (voice)
+1 800 558 7827 (voice)
+1 614 459 5054 (FAX)
Marketing@Morningstar.Com (sales e-mail)
Support@Morningstar.Com (technical e-mail)
ftp.Morningstar.Com:pub/ppp/* (anonymous FTP)
http://WWW.Morningstar.Com/ (WWW)