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- Subject: comp.protocols.ppp part5 of 8 of frequently wanted information
- Newsgroups: comp.protocols.ppp,news.answers,comp.answers
- From: ignatios@cs.uni-bonn.de (Ignatios Souvatzis)
- Date: 16 May 1994 10:45:34 GMT
-
- Archive-name: ppp-faq/part5
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- 5. FREE PPP SOFTWARE PACKAGES
-
- Free PPP FOR SunOS 4.1.x
-
- Free PPP for BSD
-
- Free PPP for SVR4
-
- Free PPP for MSDOS
-
- Free PPP for AmigaOS
-
- Free PPP for NeXT
-
- Free PPP for Macintosh
-
- Free PPP for Ultrix
-
- Free PPP for Linux
-
- 5.1 free PPP FOR SunOS 4.1.x
-
-
-
- 5.1.1 PPP-2.1 FOR BSD, SUNOS 4.X AND ULTRIX
-
-
-
- Author Paul Mackerras <paulus@cs.anu.edu.au>,
- Brad Parker <brad@FCR.COM> and contributors
- Ultrix port: sundstrom@stkhlm.enet.dec.com (Per
- Sundstrom) and
- robert@robur.slu.se (Robert Olsson)
-
- Architectures Sunos 4.x at least on Sparc,
- NetBSD at least on 80?86 and Amiga
- Ultrix on DECstations
-
- FTP archives dcssoft.anu.edu.au:/pub/ppp/ ppp-2.1.tar.gz
- Also from merit.edu:/pub/ppp/sunos-new
-
- Self-Description PPP version 2.1 is now available by anonymous FTP
- from dcssoft.anu.edu.au, in file
- /pub/ppp/ppp-2.1.tar.gz.
-
- The Ultrix port ist included in the official port PPP-2.1...
-
- Robert Olsson <Robert.Olsson@data.slu.se>
-
- ... The main change [of 2.0] from ppp-1.3.1 is that the new release
- contains a substantially improved version of pppd.
- New features in pppd include:
-
- Vastly improved security and authentication features
-
- Conforms to RFCs 1331, 1332, 1334
-
- Reads options from files as well as the command line
-
- Does proxy-ARP and default route creation if requested
-
- Paul Mackerras <paulus@cs.anu.edu.au>
-
- Comment ppp-1.3 included in NetBSD distributions;
- ppp-2.0.4 is reported to work on NetBSD-Amiga,
- NetBSD-Intel and SunOS-4.x-Sparc (did anybody try
- NetBSD-Sparc?)
-
- 5.1.2 DP-2.3
-
- Authors Kirk Smith , peter.galvaby@micromuse.ac.uk
- and others
-
- Features demand-dial, filtering, header compression,
- server and client, scripting;
- SunOS loadable modules partially supported
-
- Comment basically dp-2.2-beta with typos corrected and
- non-sun4c kernel
- architecture supported (tested on sun4c, sun4m and
- sun3
- machines, but has problems on sun3x
- architectures). It has a
- configuration file, which tells where the other
- configuration
- files are. Loadable modules work as long as you
- don't unload
- them. Finally survives even talk(1) without
- crashing the
- machine. If you see older versions, especially
- dp-2.0.tar.Z, toss them immediately!
-
- Plans Solaris 2.1 (sunos 5.1) is supported in the
- dp-3.0 version (see chapter SVR4).
-
- Mailing list maintainer
- ks@phoenix.acn.purdue.edu
-
- Mailing-list dp-list@phoenix.acn.purdue.edu (don't send 'add'
- or 'delete' requests here!!!
-
- FTP archive
- ftp@phoenix.acn.purdue.edu:pub/
-
- 5.1.3 PERKINS/CLEMENTS/FOX/CHRISTY PPP FOR SUNOS
-
- Last version patch level 6 of 1991-10-04
-
- Anonymous FTP [not cited to protect the innocent]
-
- Comment should be considered out of date. You need at
- least a special patch to fix
- most of a memory leak, and might have other
- problems. Successor
- packages are dp-2.3/3.0 and
- ppp-1.2.
-
- 5.2 free PPP for BSD:
-
- 5.2.1 PPP-2.1
-
- see above.
-
- 5.3 free PPP for SVR4
-
- 5.3.1 ...FOR GENERIC SVR4
-
- [det@hawkmoon.mn.org (Derek Terveer) was] "... contacted by the author
- of the PPP for SVR4 package that I was distributing from my
- mailserver@hawkmoon.mn.org and asked to stop. This package was an early
- beta version that wasn't intended for general consumption. ..."
-
- 5.3.2 ...SUNOS 5.X/SOLARIS 2.X
-
- dp-3.0 (Solaris 2.x version of dp-2.3)
-
- dp-3.0 has been out for quite a while. It works with Solaris 2.1 (for
- anyone foolish enough to still be running it), 2.2 and 2.3.
-
- "...It is much more stable and better behaved than the Solaris 2.3 ppp
- from Sun...." (Larry Williamson <larry@mitra.com>)
-
- 5.4 Free PPP for MSDOS
-
- 5.4.1 WG7J NOS (JNOS) PPP ADDITIONS:
-
- Johan Reinalda (WG7J) did a lot of additions/improvements to the KA9Q
- for MSDOS. One of them seems to be that PPP is working, finally. Get
- version 1.08 and up.
-
- Authors Phil Karn (KA9Q), Johan Reinalda (WG7J), with
- additions from lots of others. PPP code written by
- Katie Stevens of UC Davis, based on the original
- implementation by Drew Perkins of CMU. Updated by
- Bill Simpson and Glenn McGregor of the University
- of Michigan.
-
- Features server, client, scripting, redial,
-
- Public FTP sites:
-
- wg7j.ece.orst.edu:/public/108/
-
- ucsd.edu:hamradio/packet/tcpip/wg7j/
-
- speckled.mpifr-bonn.mpg.de:/pub/rhein.de/jnos*.exe [Executable; no
- warranty; ATTENTION: THIS IS IN EUROPE!]
-
- Comment There is a entry in the configuration recipes
- section.
-
- 5.4.2 PPP PACKET DRIVER INTERFACE
-
- Ftp archive merit.edu:pub/ppp/ncsappp.zip
-
- Comment "I have also been able to use the NCSA telnet
- packet driver,
- however, I could not use ftp with that, so I
- gave it up some months
- ago."
-
- kim@MorningStar.Com (Kim Toms)
-
- I had no problems with it. For a solution to an
- interoperability
- problem, see above.
-
- i.s.
-
- Very incomplete features
- client only
-
- 5.5 Free PPP for AmigaOS
-
- 5.5.1 AMIGANOS (KA9Q NOS PORT TO AMIGA)
-
- Mailing-list-maintainer
- amiga-slip-request@ccs.carelton.ca
-
- FAQ posting comp.sys.amiga.datacomm, every 21 days
-
- Author JOHN_H@fs2.mcc.ac.uk (John Heaton)
-
- Public ftp archive ftp.demon.co.uk: /pub/amiga/setup/setupv4.lha
- 419364 bytes (Setup for newcomers;
-
- Note that this contains some information which is
- quite
-
- specific for the demon.co.uk site only)
- /pub/amiga/anos/anos29k.lha 196742 bytes (if you
- already have an
- earlier version of setup and just need AmigaNOS
- 2.9k. Also on
- wuarchive.wus
- tl.edu:/mirrors3/ka9q/amiga/anos29k.lha
-
- Help File
- wuarchive.wustl.edu:/sys
- tems/amiga/incoming/text/AmigaNOS-help-V2.lha or
- ftp.demon.co.uk:/pub/amiga/setup/AmigaNOS-help-V
- 2.lha
-
- Comments AmigaNOS2.9k.lha contains PPP as well as SLIP.
- Seems to be a
- rfc1171 like implementation, enhanced with a
- few rfc1331/2
- features (like most other implementations I
- know of)
-
- 5.5.2 PPP.DEVICE FOR SANA2 COMPATIBLE NETWORK PACKAGES
- (AS225, AMITCP, ENVOY)
-
- 5.5.2.1 Kruse-PPP 1.0 evaluation version.
-
- Author Holger Kruse <kruse@cs.ucf.edu>
-
- Public FTP archive on Aminet:comm/net; ftp to e.g.
- wuarchive.wustl.edu, cd to /pub/aminet and read
- the instruction about the nearest mirror to you.
-
- Status Demo-Version, with Asyncmap set to 0xFFFFFFFF.
- For the full version see 7.1.1
-
- Supports IPCP, is reported to work with AmiTCP-3.0 and AS225R2, claimed
- to work with AmiTCP-2.3.
-
- 5.6 Free PPP for NeXT
-
- Public ftp archive merit.edu:pub/ppp/next-ppp0.2.tar.Z
-
- Author miron@cs.sfu.ca (Miron S. Cuperman)
-
- Comment The author claimed: I heard that it doesn't work
- with 3.0.
- I haven't looked at it myself.
- It's just a straight port of ppp-1.1. It works
- with NeXTStep
- 2.1. It is based on the BSD part of ppp-1.1,
- but with header
- compression integrated. I'm not
- currently supporting (or even using) it.
- But dstrout@sun.REST.TASC.COM (Dave Strout via
- MacPPP and Eudora) claims that:
-
- "I have gotten the next-ppp0.2 to work just
- fine under NeXTStep 3.0. I have only tried
- MacPPP running against it, but telnet,
- eudora, and GopherApp all work fine.
- FTP does not work at 2400bps, but does at 9600.
- dave."
-
- 5.7 free PPP for Macintosh
-
- -MacPPP 2.0.1 from Merit Network, Inc. and the University of Michigan
-
- Author ljb@merit.edu (Larry Blunk)
-
- Public ftp archive
- merit.edu:pub/ppp/mac/...
-
- Status
-
- macppp2.0.1.hqx seems to be the newest binary release. There are
- also sources. From the 'Installing MacPPP' document:
- "...MacPPP 1.1 [as well as 2.0.1] is a Line Access Protocol (LAP mdev)
- driver for MacTCP. This version does not support AppleTalk over PPP.
-
-
- MacPPP requires MacTCP 1.1 or higher, Macintosh System 6.0.5 or
- higher, and a Hayes-compatible modem for dial-in connections. You
- can also use MacPPP over hardwired asynchrounous connections, ..."
-
- Comment There's an entry in the configuration section
- above. There are PostScript and text installation
- documents at the ftp site. Although these date back to the 1.1.x
- releases, they're still useful for installing MacPPP 2.0.1.
-
- For a workaround for a MacPPP 2.0.1 on non-US System 6, look into
- the configuration section, too
-
- 5.8 free PPP for Ultrix
-
- ppp-2.1, see above.
-
- 5.9 free PPP for Linux
-
- ALPHA PPP for Linux Version 0.2.1
-
-
- linux-ppp-0.2.1.tgz kernel files + pppd source and binary
-
- Authors Michael Callahan <callahan@maths.ox.ac.uk>
-
- Al Longyear <longyear@netcom.com>
-
- public ftp site ftp.gang.umass.edu, directory /user/michael
-
- self-description Version 0.2.1 is meant for use with kernels 1.0.x
- and 1.1.x.
-
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- --
- --
- Ignatios Souvatzis
- -
- Solaris 2.1: it's slow, needs 200M of disk space and comes without C compiler,
- which makes it remarkably close to MS-Windows. oleg@gd.cs.csufresno.edu
-
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