15 Other features and protocols

Use the diald package. This is on sunsite in the same directory as the PPP source, /pub/Linux/system/Network/serial.

There are no plans to put filtering into the PPP code. Run the ipfirewall code. It is on sunsite. Help the author debug that code. It will do the filtering that you want in a general solution.

The latest development kernels will include the patches to support filtering. (You will still need the ipfirewall code as the kernel only contains the patches which were in the ipfirewall code for the kernel.) Again, filtering is a network issue and not one specifically for PPP.

The addition of support for IPX is fairly straight forward. Work is underway to include the IPX protocol.

There is a netbios PPP protocol. However, your better solution would be to use TCP/IP and the `samba' code.

Microsoft and others have used Netbios PPP protocol.

The nbfcp protocol is a public document and available from several sources. The Netbios protocol is not a valid address family at the present time for Linux. Until Linux supports the protocol, there is little need to support Netbios over PPP for Linux.

ISDN support revolves around having a working ISDN driver. The present design of the PPP driver does not lend itself well to the concept of a block of data being received. This is being changed. A driver for the Sonix interface is being developed.

There are small changes needed to support a serial interface which uses synchronous communications. The redesign of the PPP driver will help with this function as well. Kate Marika Alhola has expressed an intrest in writing such a synchronous driver for her hardware. You should contact her at kate@digiw.fi for further information.