James Carlson

PPP Reference Materials

• Standards-related Documentation

  Getting Documents by FTP
  See also the section below listing standards organizations.

  • ftp://ftp.isi.edu/in-notes/std/std-index.txt
    List of current IETF standards (STDs)
  • ftp://ftp.isi.edu/in-notes/rfc-index.txt
    List of current IETF Requests for Comment (RFCs)
  • ftp://ftp.isi.edu/in-notes/std
    IETF Standards (STDs)
  • ftp://ftp.isi.edu/in-notes/
    IETF Requests For Comment (RFCs)
  • ftp://ftp.isi.edu/internet-drafts
    IETF Internet Drafts (IDs)
  • http://search.ietf.org/
    IETF search engine
  • http://www.ietf.org/html.charters/wg-dir.html
    Internet Engineering Task Force Working Groups
  • http://www.hallikainen.com/FccRules/
    US FCC Rules
  • ftp://ftp.uu.net/archive/inet
    UUNet archive
  
  Other Standard Document Sources
  • http://www.ihsengineering.com/
    Global Engineering Documents (document publisher)
  
  
• Help Sites
  • http://cs.uni-bonn.de/ppp/faq.html
    PPP Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)
  • ftp://rtfm.mit.edu/pub/usenet-by-group
    Usenet FAQ archives (large directory listing)
  • http://www.faqs.org/faqs/ppp-faq/part1/index.html
    Comp.protocols.ppp FAQ
  • http://reality.exsgi.org/scotth/dialup-support.html
    PPP Tips for SGI from an ex-SGI employee
  • http://www.skaht.com/
    PPP Tips for SGI from a user.
  • http://sclug.usc.edu/LDP/HOWTO/PPP-HOWTO/index.html
    The Linux PPP how-to document
  • http://axion.physics.ubc.ca/ppp-linux.html
    Bill Unruh's "How to hook up PPP in Linux" FAQ
  • http://www.ag0ny.com/misc/ppp-primer/
    "Pedantic PPP Primer" for FreeBSD
  • http://www.wins.uva.nl/pub/solaris/solaris2.html
    Solaris 2.X FAQ (180KB)
  • http://docs.sun.com/db/doc/816-4882/6mb2ipqa7?a=view
    Sun's Solaris PPP 4.0
  • http://www.gonehiking.org/solaris/ppp.html
    Khalid Aziz' Solaris dial-up instructions
  • http://www.cisco.com/univercd/cc/td/doc/product/software/ios113ed/113ed_cr/dial_c/dcprt2/dcppp.htm
    Cisco's IOS PPP configuration manual
  • http://developer.apple.com/networking/index.html
    MacOS Networking
  • http://www.annoyances.org/win95/dun.html
    Coping with MS Windows Dial-Up Networking (DUN)
  • http://www.carricksolutions.com/pppoe.htm
    PPPoE and DSL help page
  • Pages of pointers to TCP/IP information
    http://www.private.org.il/tcpip_rl.html
    http://www.faqs.org/faqs/internet/tcp-ip/resource-list/index.html
    ftp://rtfm.mit.edu/pub/usenet-by-group/news.answers/internet/tcp-ip/resource-list
    ftp://rtfm.mit.edu/pub/usenet-by-hierarchy/comp/protocols/tcp-ip/TCP_IP_Resources_List
  
  
• Newsgroups
  You will need to set up your NNTP server in your browser to view these news groups, if you have not yet done so.
  • comp.protocols.ppp
  • comp.protocols.tcp-ip
  • comp.dcom.servers
  • comp.dcom.frame-relay
  • comp.dcom.isdn
  • comp.dcom.modems
  • comp.dcom.xdsl
  • comp.os.linux.networking
  • comp.os.ms-windows.networking.ras
  • comp.os.ms-windows.nt.admin.networking
  • comp.os.os2.networking.misc
  • comp.unix.*
  
  
• Mailing Lists
  • ietf-announce-request@ietf.org
    IETF Announcements
  • https://www1.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/pppext
    http://www.ietf.org/html.charters/pppext-charter.html
    IETF pppext Working Group (For developers only.)
  • ftp://ftp.merit.edu/mail.archives/ietf-ppp-archive/ (old)
    http://www.ietf.org/mail-archive/web/pppext/index.html (new)
    IETF pppext mailing list archive
  • l2tpext-request@ietf.org
    http://www.ietf.org/html.charters/l2tpext-charter.html
    IETF l2tpext Working Group (For developers only.)
  • http://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/l2tpext/ (From December 7th, 2001)
    IETF l2tpext Working Group mailing list archive
  
  
• Organizations

  Standards and Administrative Organizations

  • http://www.ietf.org/
    Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF)
  • http://www.iana.org/
    Internet Assigned Numbers Authority (IANA)
  • http://www.icann.org/
    The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers
  • http://www.isi.edu/
    Information Sciences Institute
  • http://www.networksolutions.com/
    Network Solutions / Verisign (domain registry)
  • http://www.ntia.doc.gov/
    US Government's National Telecommunications and Information Administration
  • http://www.fcc.gov/
    US Government's Federal Communications Commission
  • http://www.arin.net/
    American Registry for Internet Numbers (ARIN)
  • http://www.ripe.net/
    Regional Internet Registry for Europe (RIPE)
  • http://www.apnic.net/
    Asia Pacific Network Information Center
  • http://www.nic.mx/
    Mexico Network Information Center
  • http://www.itu.int/
    International Telephony Union (ITU)
  • http://www.iso.ch/
    International Organization for Standardization (ISO)
  • http://www.etsi.org/
    European Telecommunications Standards Institute (ETSI)
  • http://www.ansi.org/
    American National Standards Institute (ANSI)
  • http://www.eia.org/
    Electronic Industries Alliance (EIA)
  • http://www.ieee.org/
    Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)
  • http://www.mplsforum.org/
    The MLPS and Frame Relay Alliance
  • http://www.atmforum.com/
    The Asynchronous Transfer Mode Forum (ATMF)
  • http://www.oiforum.com/
    The Optical Internetworking Forum (OIF)
  • http://www.ntcip.org/
    National Transportation Communications for ITS Protocol
    US Federal Highway Administration project working on, among other things, a new network control protocol for PPP.

  Programmer's Organizations

  • http://www.fsf.org/
    Free Software Foundation
  • http://lpf.ai.mit.edu/
    League For Programming Freedom
  • ftp://ftp.uu.net/doc/lpf/
    UUNet archive of LPF documents
    (Warning - the old "lpf.org" domain has been taken over by the Libertarian party in Florida.)
    (The LPF seems to be stirring after many months of inactivity.)
  
  
• Free PPP-Related Sources
  • ftp://ftp.samba.org/pub/ppp/
    ftp://cs.anu.edu.au/pub/software/ppp
    Implementation of ppp for most Unix machines. The first link is the primary site. If you're looking for PPP source code, read this first!
  • http://www.awfulhak.org/ppp.html
    user-ppp on FreeBSD and OpenBSD
  • ftp://ftp.whistle.com/pub/archie/mpd
    mpd - Version of iij-ppp which supports multilink on FreeBSD.
  • http://linux-mp.terz.de/
    mp - - patches to pppd which support multilink on Linux.
  • ftp://ftp.east.telecom.kz/pub/src/networking/ppp/multilink/
    Another set of patches to pppd to support multilink.
  • http://echelon.pl/pubs/tacacs.html
    Patches for pppd to support TACACS+ authentication.
  • ftp://ftp-eng.cisco.com/pub/tacacs/
    Cisco's TACACS+ server.
  • http://www.interlinknetworks.com/
    The old Merit Network RADIUS server has turned commercial; it's now owned by a start-up called Interlink Networks.
  • http://pptpclient.sourceforge.net/
    Support for Microsoft's proprietary PPTP on Linux (client mode).
  • http://www.counterpane.com/pptp.html
    Explanation of why you shouldn't use PPTP on any platform.
  • http://www.ka9q.net/code/ka9qnos/
    KA9Q - Free network software for DOS.
  • ftp://ftp.fu-berlin.de/pc/msdos/network/ka9q/
    KA9Q in Germany - Another repository of DOS networking software.
  • ftp://ftp.simtel.net/pub/simtelnet/msdos/pktdrvr/dosppp05.zip
    PC DOS PPP
  • http://www.kevin-wells.com/net/scripts.html
    Win95 "null modem" driver for PPP between directly connected devices.
  • ftp://ftp.sgi.com/other/ARCHIVE/ppp-comp/predictor1.c
    SGI's Predictor-1 implementation
  • ftp://ftp.cpsc.ucalgary.ca/pub/projects/text.compression.corpus
    Calgary Corpus (compression benchmark files)
  
  
• Other Free Sources
  • http://www.gnu.org/
    ftp://ftp.gnu.org/pub/gnu
    The Gnu Project
  • ftp://ftp.x.org/pub
    X Window System
  • http://www.netbsd.org/
    NetBSD
  • http://www.freebsd.org/
    FreeBSD
  • http://www.openbsd.org/
    OpenBSD
  • http://www.linux.org/
    Linux
  • http://www.debian.org/
    Debian GNU/Linux
  
  
• Commercial Sources
  • http://www.klos.com/
    Klos Technologies - PPP analyzers and driver implementations for async and ISDN on PCs.
  • http://www.futsoft.com/
    Future Software; PPP, ATM, MPLS, and other protocols
  • http://www.networkgeneral.com/
    The Network General Sniffer
  • http://www.hifn.com/
    HI/fn now has all of the rights to the STAC and MS-PPC compression algorithms, and sells source code and compression chips for PPP implementations. The old STAC Electronics site still exists, but has no compression references.
  • http://www.redhat.com/
    Red Hat Linux
  • http://www.suse.com/
    SuSE Linux
    (Gesellschaft für Software- und Systementwicklung mbH)
  
  
• Other Reference Lists
  • http://www.stokely.com/unix.serial.port.resources/ppp.slip.html
    Extensive reference list for serial network under Unix.
  • http://www.cs.utk.edu/~shuford/computing_tech.html
    Richard Shuford's (long) list of reference sites
  • http://www.townsley.net/l2tp.html
    W. Mark Townsley's L2TP links.
  • http://wwwpub.utdallas.edu/~cantrell/ee6345/resources.html
    University at Texas (Dallas) IP networking course references
  • http://people.qualcomm.com/karn/
    Phil Karn's pages (KA9Q)
  • ftp://ftp.rubyriver.com/pub/jhardin/masquerade/ip_masq_vpn.html
    Linux VPN Masquerade
  • http://sunsite.unc.edu/mdw/HOWTO/IPX-HOWTO.html
    The Linux IPX how-to document
  • http://www.fdisk.com/doslynx/
    Various DOS references, some for PPP.
  • http://www.nat32.com/
    NAT32 utility for Win95 users needing to connect multiple machines to the Internet through one link.
  • ftp://ftp.ee.lbl.gov/cslip-2.7.tar.Z
    Old implementation of compressed SLIP for BSD.
    (Includes good VJ compression code.)
  • http://www.macorchard.com/connect.html
    http://www.macorchard.com/
    A dozen different free PPP and SLIP implementations and related utilities for the Macintosh. The main page for The Mac Orchard, listed second, contains a large number of references for general Macintosh networking software.
  • ftp://ftp.ecs.soton.ac.uk/pub/elks/utils/index.html
    tinytcp, a stack including TCP and FTP for embedded systems. The original site also has list of several other useful things.
  • http://www.geocities.com/SiliconValley/Pines/8659/crc.htm
    Ross Williams' comprehensive CRC tutorial and reference.