sdelles@cbnewse.att.com (steven.c.delles) (06/07/90)
I am looking for information about Point-to-Point Protocol. Could somebody out there give me some help? Is PPP a good replacement for SLIP? Is the source code in the public domain? If so, where can I get it? What's the performance like? Thanks Steve Delles
loverso@Xylogics.COM (John Robert LoVerso) (06/14/90)
In article <1990Jun7.134915.1826@cbnewse.att.com> sdelles@cbnewse.att.com (steven.c.delles) writes: > Is PPP a good replacement for SLIP? Is the source code in the > public domain? If so, where can I get it? What's the performance like? PPP is described in RFC1134 and a few draft RFCs under revision by the IETF PPP working group (see nnsc.nsf.net:/internet-drafts). PPP is intended as a standard p-to-p encapsulation scheme - and not just for IP. And it will supports things that can only be hacked into SLIP (CRC, address negotiation, protocol (TCP) header compression, etc). The implementations I know of are all (or will all be) freely redistributable (but not public domain). They are: one for 4BSD from CMU, one for SunOS4.0 (sync only) from U Hawaii, one for KA9Q from UCDavis, and one that Van Jacobson is working on (based roughly - very roughly - on the CMU prototype). There will be a splash of PPP products displayed at InterOP90. John -- John Robert LoVerso Xylogics, Inc. 617/272-8140 x284 loverso@Xylogics.COM Annex Terminal Server Development Group