3 Other implementations

AIX is due to be supported in the 2.2 version of the pppd process. HP-UX is, to my knowledge, only supported by the Morning Star commercial package.

If you don't find one listed then post to the comp.protocols.ppp group and not the Linux group.

(Please don't mail me asking for "Do you know of a PPP package for ..."? These requests will now be `appropriately' filed. ;-))

Linux, at the present time, does not supports streams.

There are several other packages for PPP available on the `net'. The `portable ppp' package is very much like the TIA code. There is another package called simply `ppp'. There is code for PPP in the KA9Q package.

Of all of the packages available, the pppd package was the closest to the requirements and functions of Linux to warrant the port.

(If you want more information about these other packages, ask in the comp.protocols.ppp group!)

A: The current implementation of PPP is a mixture of several. The major portion of the PPP code is written against the RFCs 1331 and 1332. These RFCs were later obsoleted. 1331 was replaced by 1548 and that, in turn, was obsoleted by 1661 six months later.

Most implementations of PPP will be happy to talk to the Linux PPP code.

A complete list is in the PPP faq.

[to quote the FAQ document]:

All of 1134, 1171, and 1172 (and 1055, for that matter :-) have been obsoleted. They're interesting only if you want to debug a connection with an ancient PPP implementation, and you're wondering why (e.g.) it asked you for IPCP option 2 with a length of only 4, and Compression-Type 0x0037.

(There's a lot of that still running around - be careful out there.)

Linux PPP will not support this.