If you want to know what all this is about, continue
with part 2.
1.0 Important Changes
1.1 Introduction
I took the Information in Ed Vielmetti's FAQ files, my personal
experience, and lots of stuff from comp.protocols.ppp, and built a new
document. Later, lots of people
contributed at one or the other place.
This document will be reposted fortnightly, as soon as it is fairly
stable, and weekly till then. Changed sections should be marked in the Table of Contents with a ! or + for something got added or
- for something got deleted.
If you have experience with anything mentioned here, or know of newer
versions, or of versions of software for other hardware/OS, or ...
send me mail. I'll include it and possibly mention your name, if you don't
express otherwise.
The last paragraph applies explicitly to the
authors themselves! Keep me informed, please. If you send me complete
entries, consider to get the HTML version from
http://theory.cs.uni-bonn.de/ppp/part?.html and send me an edited
version.
This sample of documents was collected by me from the various sources,
including the Usenet news and direct contributions from others. I
started with it before the outbreak of the CD ROM plague, so the
special issue of ppl. collecting machine readable data, storing them
to master disks and selling copies thereof never occured.
Personally, I think that pressing higly dynamic data collections (like
FAQ lists) to write-once media is a very stupid thing to do. However,
there might be reasons to include the PPP-FAQ with other data; e.g.,
when preparing a NetBSD
distribution on CD-ROM, an off-line readable copy of the PPP FAQ might
be helpful for those wanting to set up a PPP connection from their
newly aquired NetBSD for the first time... how could they access the
online copy without having a working PPP connection?
In the last few years I got lots of requests to allow the PPP FAQ to
be added to such CD-ROMs. As I never had asked for such permissions
from the contributors, I was not able to say "yes", even if I would
have given the permission for my own work.
If you contribute s.th., please state clearly if you would allow
inclusion of the information to CD-ROM collections.
At the moment, I can't give the permission to copy this stuff to
CD-ROMs which are sold afterwards, even if I would like to, for the
stated reasons.
I want to express that any information in this posting or its
follow-ups is provided on an "AS-IS" basis as a service to my
colleagues at other Universities, without any implied or explicit
warranties.
To be more precise:
- I don't promise that all freely available programs are contained,
or that programs described here are (still) available, or ar suited
for anything useful better or worse than others. If you wan't me to
include s.th., tell me about it; but I don't promise that I'll include
it the same day or week or at all.
- I don't promise that commercial products contained here exist,
that all commercial products in existance are contained here, or that
products contained here are suited for anything useful better or worse
than others. If any vendors feel their product should be included, and
tells me about it, I probably would do it; but I don't promise that
I'll include it the same day or week or at all.
After all, doing this FAQ isn't my primary duty at work.
Ignatios Souvatzis
<ignatios@cs.uni-bonn.de>
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