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1 | <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> |
2 | <!DOCTYPE book PUBLIC "-//OASIS//DTD DocBook XML V4.1.2//EN" | |
3 | "http://www.oasis-open.org/docbook/xml/4.1.2/docbookx.dtd" []> | |
4 | ||
5 | <book id="WANGuide"> | |
6 | <bookinfo> | |
7 | <title>Synchronous PPP and Cisco HDLC Programming Guide</title> | |
8 | ||
9 | <authorgroup> | |
10 | <author> | |
11 | <firstname>Alan</firstname> | |
12 | <surname>Cox</surname> | |
13 | <affiliation> | |
14 | <address> | |
15 | <email>alan@redhat.com</email> | |
16 | </address> | |
17 | </affiliation> | |
18 | </author> | |
19 | </authorgroup> | |
20 | ||
21 | <copyright> | |
22 | <year>2000</year> | |
23 | <holder>Alan Cox</holder> | |
24 | </copyright> | |
25 | ||
26 | <legalnotice> | |
27 | <para> | |
28 | This documentation is free software; you can redistribute | |
29 | it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public | |
30 | License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either | |
31 | version 2 of the License, or (at your option) any later | |
32 | version. | |
33 | </para> | |
34 | ||
35 | <para> | |
36 | This program is distributed in the hope that it will be | |
37 | useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied | |
38 | warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. | |
39 | See the GNU General Public License for more details. | |
40 | </para> | |
41 | ||
42 | <para> | |
43 | You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public | |
44 | License along with this program; if not, write to the Free | |
45 | Software Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place, Suite 330, Boston, | |
46 | MA 02111-1307 USA | |
47 | </para> | |
48 | ||
49 | <para> | |
50 | For more details see the file COPYING in the source | |
51 | distribution of Linux. | |
52 | </para> | |
53 | </legalnotice> | |
54 | </bookinfo> | |
55 | ||
56 | <toc></toc> | |
57 | ||
58 | <chapter id="intro"> | |
59 | <title>Introduction</title> | |
60 | <para> | |
61 | The syncppp drivers in Linux provide a fairly complete | |
62 | implementation of Cisco HDLC and a minimal implementation of | |
63 | PPP. The longer term goal is to switch the PPP layer to the | |
64 | generic PPP interface that is new in Linux 2.3.x. The API should | |
65 | remain unchanged when this is done, but support will then be | |
66 | available for IPX, compression and other PPP features | |
67 | </para> | |
68 | </chapter> | |
69 | <chapter id="bugs"> | |
70 | <title>Known Bugs And Assumptions</title> | |
71 | <para> | |
72 | <variablelist> | |
73 | <varlistentry><term>PPP is minimal</term> | |
74 | <listitem> | |
75 | <para> | |
76 | The current PPP implementation is very basic, although sufficient | |
77 | for most wan usages. | |
78 | </para> | |
79 | </listitem></varlistentry> | |
80 | ||
81 | <varlistentry><term>Cisco HDLC Quirks</term> | |
82 | <listitem> | |
83 | <para> | |
84 | Currently we do not end all packets with the correct Cisco multicast | |
85 | or unicast flags. Nothing appears to mind too much but this should | |
86 | be corrected. | |
87 | </para> | |
88 | </listitem></varlistentry> | |
89 | </variablelist> | |
90 | ||
91 | </para> | |
92 | </chapter> | |
93 | ||
94 | <chapter id="pubfunctions"> | |
95 | <title>Public Functions Provided</title> | |
96 | !Edrivers/net/wan/syncppp.c | |
97 | </chapter> | |
98 | ||
99 | </book> |