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Date:      Wed, 17 Jan 1996 09:03:00 -0700
From:      Nate Williams <nate@sri.MT.net>
To:        dme@zigzag.org
Cc:        Nate Williams <nate@sri.MT.net>, hackers@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Yet another PPP question
Message-ID:  <199601171603.JAA08212@rocky.sri.MT.net>
In-Reply-To: <199601171105.LAA19296@forbidden-planet.netlab.london.sco.com>
References:  <199601170252.UAA03134@fourthgen.com> <199601170511.WAA07206@rocky.sri.MT.net> <199601171105.LAA19296@forbidden-planet.netlab.london.sco.com>

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> : Thank M$ for this.  Basically, Microsoft asked for some extensions to
> : the PPP protocol which were denied by the IETF for valid reasons.  (The
> : extensions didn't belong at that lawyer and should have been part of a
> : separate protocol).  Rather than being a good net-citizen, they ignored
> : the results and implemented them anyway.
> 
> i don't think that this is actually the case.  802b is the protocol id
> for ipx over ppp.  803f is the protocol id for netbios over ppp.  (see
> rfc 1700).  win95 supports all of these over ppp, whereas the freebsd
> ppp supports only lcp, ipcp, upap and chap in 2.1R.

Hey, I'm just repeating what I know.  The extensions that M$ TCP/IP are
asking for were denied by the IETF.  For more details, see the BSDi
mailing lists.


Nate



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