[comp.protocols.tcp-ip] PPP Documentation wanted

Murray_RJ@cc.curtin.edu.au (Ron Murray) (02/15/91)

   I'd like to get the specs for PPP. RFC number (if any) or other help
would be appreciated.
Thanks,
....Ron

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kasten@EUROPA.CLEARPOINT.COM (Frank Kastenholz) (02/19/91)

 > From tcp-ip-RELAY@NIC.DDN.MIL Fri Feb 15 23:14:40 1991
 > From: swrinde!cs.utexas.edu!sdd.hp.com!samsung!munnari.oz.au!uniwa!vax7!nmurrayr@ucsd.edu  (Ron Murray)
 > Organization: Curtin University of Technology
 > Subject: PPP Documentation wanted
 > Sender: tcp-ip-relay@nic.ddn.mil
 > To: tcp-ip@nic.ddn.mil
 > 
 > 
 >    I'd like to get the specs for PPP. RFC number (if any) or other help
 > would be appreciated.
 > Thanks,
 > ....Ron
 > 
 > -- 
 > 
 > ===============================================================================
 >  Internet: Murray_RJ@cc.curtin.edu.au                | "You can lead a horse to
 >  ACSnet: Murray_RJ@cc.cut.oz.au                      | water, but if you can
 >  Bitnet: Murray_RJ%cc.curtin.edu.au@cunyvm.bitnet    | get him to float on his
 >  UUCP  : uunet!munnari.oz!cc.curtin.edu.au!Murray_RJ | back you've really got
 > Amateur Packet Radio: VK6ZJM@VK6BBS.#WA.AUS.OC       | something"
 >                TCP/IP: 44.136.204.14, 44.136.204.19  |    -- Murphy's Law I
 > ===============================================================================
 > 

From the latest rfc-index.txt (available at most RFC repositories):

1172  Perkins, D.; Hobby, R.  Point-to-Point Protocol (PPP) initial
      configuration options.  1990 July; 38 p. (Format: TXT=76132 bytes)

1171  Perkins, D.  Point-to-Point Protocol for the transmission of
      multi-protocol datagrams over Point-to-Point links.  1990 July; 48 p.
      (Format: TXT=92321 bytes)  (Obsoletes RFC 1134)

There are also a couple of internet drafts which may be of interest:

	draft-ietf-ppp-multidatagrams-02.txt
	draft-ietf-ppp-options-03.txt
	draft-ietf-ppp-pppmib-00.txt
	draft-ietf-ppp-pppmib-01.txt
	draft-ietf-pppext-bridging-00
	draft-ietf-pppext-pppmib-00.txt
	draft-ietf-pppext-pppmib-01.txt

Frank Kastenholz
Clearpoint Research