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Subject: Re: PPP over TCP 
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> 	So I noticed that the 'ppp' program supports PPP over TCP on
> the client side. However, I didn't see server-side support in that
> program. It seemed to me like an easy task to write a little program
> that sits on a port, accepts a connection, forks, dups the socket fds
> to stdin, stdout, and then exec'ing ppp -direct. However, I am lazy,
> so I was wondering if anyone's written that server-side yet, so I
> don't have to.

Man inetd.

> Thanks,
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> Sameer Parekh					Voice:   510-986-8770
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