In article <Pine.NEB.4.10.9905072049310.2951-100000@vmunix.psn.ie> ad@fionn.sports.gov.uk (Andy Doran) writes:

Imho we should definitely add it as a package... 
>	o It is transport neutral; TCP or serial line, it doesn't matter.

You can to this with a trivial program that connects an fd to a pty.

>	o It supports the M$ extensions properly, including MS-CHAP,
>	  which is basically essential in a M$ centric environment.

pppd does too.
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>	o It supports multilink PPP.

That we don't and it is a very serious flaw.

>	o It would be trivial to support synchronous framed protocols,
>	  like true HDLC. This is useful for ISDN.

isdn4bsd...

>	o It supports both the LCP and M$ callback protocols.

I think we do, not sure.


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christos