I understand your dislike for the pppd side of PPP.

  But, the IP encapsulation stuff can be pretty simple - why not just run 
PPP without LCP, etc. - just use PPP encapsulation. At least stuff like
tcpdump will understand it.

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]   Michael Richardson, Sandelman Software Works, Ottawa, ON    |net architect[
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