From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed Jan 17 08:05:35 1996 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id IAA18453 for hackers-outgoing; Wed, 17 Jan 1996 08:05:35 -0800 (PST) Received: from rocky.sri.MT.net (rocky.sri.MT.net [204.182.243.10]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id IAA18448 for ; Wed, 17 Jan 1996 08:05:31 -0800 (PST) Received: (from nate@localhost) by rocky.sri.MT.net (8.6.12/8.6.12) id JAA08212; Wed, 17 Jan 1996 09:03:00 -0700 Date: Wed, 17 Jan 1996 09:03:00 -0700 From: Nate Williams Message-Id: <199601171603.JAA08212@rocky.sri.MT.net> To: dme@zigzag.org Cc: Nate Williams , hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Yet another PPP question 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> Sender: owner-hackers@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk > : 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