16 Other features and protocols

Contents of this section

16.1 What about support for `demand dial' A: Use the diald package. This is on sunsite in thesame directory as the ppp source,/pub/Linux/system/Network/serial.

16.2 What about `filtering' A: There are no plans to put filtering into the PPP code. Run theipfirewall code. It is on sunsite. Help the author debugthat code. It will do the filtering that you want in a generalsolution.

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.

16.3 How about IPX? A: The addition of support for IPX is fairlystraight forward. Work is underway to include the IPX protocol.

16.4 How about NETBIOS? A: There is a netbios PPP protocol. However, your better solutionwould be to use TCP/IP and the `samba' code.

Microsoft and others have used Netbios PPP protocol. This is usually a proprietary mixture and one vendor is not guaranteed to work with another.

I'll leave the Netbios protocols for someone else. If a Microsoft employee wishes to donate to the public domain the specifications and the time to implement their Netbios over PPP, send the diffs to me. I'll make sure that they are put into the released product.

Next Chapter, Previous Chapter

Table of contents of this chapter, General table of contents

Top of the document, Beginning of this Chapter