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Acked-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@xenotime.net> Signed-off-by: Alan Cox <alan@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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"http://www.oasis-open.org/docbook/xml/4.1.2/docbookx.dtd" []>
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<book id="WANGuide">
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<bookinfo>
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<title>Synchronous PPP and Cisco HDLC Programming Guide</title>
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<authorgroup>
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<author>
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<firstname>Alan</firstname>
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<surname>Cox</surname>
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<affiliation>
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<address>
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<email>alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk</email>
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</address>
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</affiliation>
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</author>
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</authorgroup>
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<copyright>
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<year>2000</year>
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<holder>Alan Cox</holder>
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</copyright>
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<legalnotice>
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<para>
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This documentation is free software; you can redistribute
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it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public
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License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either
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version 2 of the License, or (at your option) any later
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version.
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</para>
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<para>
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This program is distributed in the hope that it will be
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useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied
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warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.
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See the GNU General Public License for more details.
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</para>
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<para>
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You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public
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License along with this program; if not, write to the Free
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Software Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place, Suite 330, Boston,
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MA 02111-1307 USA
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</para>
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<para>
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For more details see the file COPYING in the source
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distribution of Linux.
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</para>
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</legalnotice>
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</bookinfo>
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<toc></toc>
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<chapter id="intro">
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<title>Introduction</title>
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<para>
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The syncppp drivers in Linux provide a fairly complete
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implementation of Cisco HDLC and a minimal implementation of
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PPP. The longer term goal is to switch the PPP layer to the
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generic PPP interface that is new in Linux 2.3.x. The API should
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remain unchanged when this is done, but support will then be
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available for IPX, compression and other PPP features
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</para>
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</chapter>
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<chapter id="bugs">
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<title>Known Bugs And Assumptions</title>
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<para>
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<variablelist>
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<varlistentry><term>PPP is minimal</term>
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<listitem>
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<para>
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The current PPP implementation is very basic, although sufficient
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for most wan usages.
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</para>
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</listitem></varlistentry>
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<varlistentry><term>Cisco HDLC Quirks</term>
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<listitem>
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<para>
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Currently we do not end all packets with the correct Cisco multicast
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or unicast flags. Nothing appears to mind too much but this should
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be corrected.
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</para>
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</listitem></varlistentry>
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</variablelist>
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</para>
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</chapter>
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<chapter id="pubfunctions">
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<title>Public Functions Provided</title>
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!Edrivers/net/wan/syncppp.c
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</chapter>
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</book>
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