HDTenEightyP/NetNews huggingface dataset:
From: mdivya@world.std.com (Marigowda Divya)
Subject: Re: 2 station Token-Ring - problems with setting up.
Keywords: Token-Ring, MAU, DTAU, Onan Box, 9pin-to-9pin.
Organization: The World Public Access UNIX, Brookline, MA
Date: Fri, 9 Oct 1992 10:34:42 GMT

add@philabs.philips.com (Aninda V. Dasgupta) writes:

>I am trying to setup my own little token-ring with just two stations
>on it.  Every vendor I talk to, wants to sell me a MAU. I have
>just two stations and I know that I will never expand this
>network, why should I have to buy a MAU? Even two port MAUs are
>so expensive I don't want to touch them....

>My question to Token-ring gurus is, can I use/get any one of the 
>following?

>- A Dual Terminal Access Unit or DTAU (People within IBM call it an Onan Box
>  because it is made by Onan, Inc., but nobody seems to know how to
>  buy one.) A DTAU serves two purposes.  One can connect it to a Token-ring
>  wall outlet and then hook up two computers to its two ports, thus essentially
>  expanding a single-port wall outlet to two ports.  But by flipping a
>  switch one can use the DTAU to simply connect two stations and not hook the
>  DTAU to any wall-outlet, thus having a two-station ring.  Does anyone know
>  what I am taking about, know where I can buy one of these boxes?

>- A 9-pin to 9-pin cable that allows me to connect the two adapters on
>  the two computers together?  Will such a cable work if I don't care
>  about the fault detecting relays in a MAU?  (What else is a passive MAU
>  good for other than the bypass-relays in it?)
>  Any recommended vendors for such 9-pin to 9-pin (male to male) cables?
>  I have tried BlackBox and Cabletron, didn't work.

>- A Cheap 2-port MAU (within $250).  All the ones I have seen are way over
>  my meager budget.

>It's so hard to believe that setting up a simple two-station ring requires
>the purchase of so much extra junk that I don't need (read: an 8-port MAU.)

>Any help will be greatly appreciated.  Thanks in advance.
>-- 
>Aninda DasGupta   (add@philabs.philips.com)
>Ph : (914) 945-6071    Fax : (914) 945-6552
>Philips Labs\n 345 Scarborough Rd\n  Briarcliff Manor\n NY 10510
>(Gas from Phillips Petroleum, Antacid from Phillips Medical, Lightbulbs from us)


The DTAU that you mention is also made by RAD (201-529-1100);  I vaguely
remember ONAN being located in Minnesota (you may want to try the 800
directory).  I saw both at COMNET at Washington D.C., almost two years
ago and talked to several engineers to confirm that it can also be used
as a mini MAU for two nodes; but I gave up on them because of price,
which was at that time almost $200.00.  I finally ended up buying a
used MAU for $150.00.  I am sure you can pick up a used MAU for less
than a $100.00, if you look around at computer shows or scan the 
WANT-AD weekly.  If you do find a used MAU, be sure to get the
RESET Key (I am not sure what it is called exactly); you will need
it occasionally, to reset the MAU.

divya
(mdivya@world.std.com)
From: TOMLIN@ADCALC.FNAL.GOV ("", RAY)
Newsgroups: comp.protocols.ibm
Subject: RE: MVS TCP/IP Vendors
Date: 8 Oct 92 13:25:21 GMT
Reply-To: BITNIC IBM-NETS List <IBM-NETS%BITNIC.BITNET@cmsa.Berkeley.EDU>
Distribution: world
Organization: The Internet


	Gee, we had all that on our VAXen for years. I guess we just took it
for granted.
Newsgroups: comp.protocols.ppp
From: dvalley@andr.UB.com (Dave Valley)
Subject: Looking for information on PPP at T1 line rate
Reply-To: dvalley@andr.UB.com
Organization: Ungermann-Bass Inc./Andover, MA
Date: Wed, 14 Oct 1992 17:31:26 GMT

I am just beginning to learn about PPP and am trying understand how it is typically implemented on a hardware platform that provides a bit-synchronous serial line at high data rates such as T1 line rate ( 1.544Mbps ).  Is this commonly done?  What are the pros and cons of using PPP?  What type of processing power is required to implement the protocol?

In typical PPP implementations, how much of RFC-1331, RFC-1332, and RFC-1333 is 
adhered to?

Any information that you can provide for a PPP beginner would be helpful.

Dave Valley
From: ss@panix.com (Steve Steinberg)
Newsgroups: comp.protocols.ppp
Subject: FAQ or Info required for KA9Q PPP for PC<->PC
Date: 16 Oct 92 17:37:45 GMT
Article-I.D.: panix.1992Oct16.173745.23079
Organization: PANIX Public Access Unix, NYC

I can't seem to get KA9Q running between 2 PC hardwired together.
The documentation has very few examples and I was wondering if 
there was additional documentation available or if anyone had
some sample configuration they could share.

Are there commercial PPP packages available for MSDOS?

Thanks,
Steve
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Newsgroups: comp.protocols.ppp
From: bob@MorningStar.Com (Bob Sutterfield)
Subject: Re: dp-2.2-beta problems
Organization: Morning Star Technologies
Date: Mon, 12 Oct 1992 18:36:48 GMT

In article <87Rw02E025vQ01@JUTS.ccc.amdahl.com> lra00@pecan.spa.amdahl.com (Larry R. Ader) writes:
   I'm getting apprx. 2.4-2.6 KB/s for /vmunix, but only 2.0 KB/s for
   large (~500K) text files.

Very strange.  English text should be much more compressible, on the
whole, than a SPARC binary, so it should flow across the line at a
speed much closer to the limiting DTE rate.  My test data was five
concatenated copies of /usr/dict/words, being the most convenient and
easily-replicated source of lots of text.

   Incidentally, when I'm uploading to work from home, I often see the
   CTS (and thusly SD) LEDs go off.  Should data be being held back
   this frequently?

Yes.  And that's a good sign in some ways: it means that the
compressor in your modem is filling up your carrier to its capacity.
On the other hand, your interactive latency is now maximally bad,
because your modems' buffers are as full as they can get.

   Bob, could I possilbly get a copy of your WorldBlazer configuration
   so that I can see what we're doing differently?

Here are some excerpts from our example Dialers file:

#
# Set up a Telebit WorldBlazer by giving it the following command:
#
#    at&f9 s0=1 s7=120 s48=1 s51=6 s58=2 s59=15 s61=0 s63=1 s92=1 tq2x12&c1&d3&s1&w
#
WORLDBLAZER	ABORT NO\sCARRIER ABORT NO\sDIALTONE ABORT BUSY \
	ABORT RRING\r\n\r\nRRING\r\n\r\nRRING ABORT ERROR \
	TIMEOUT 5 "" AT OK-AT-OK ATS111=0DT\T TIMEOUT 60 CONNECT
#
# You should use the WorldBlazer in PEP mode only if the telephone
# lines are unable of sustaining a V.32bis carrier connection.
#
WORLDBLAZER-PEP	ABORT NO\sCARRIER ABORT NO\sDIALTONE ABORT BUSY \
	ABORT RRING\r\n\r\nRRING\r\n\r\nRRING ABORT ERROR \
	TIMEOUT 5 "" AT OK-AT-OK ATS111=0S50=255DT\T TIMEOUT 90 CONNECT

and here's what it looks like when it's done:

at&v
WorldBlazer - SA - Version LA5.01 - Active Configuration
 B1  E1  L2  M1  Q2  T   V1  X12  Y0
&C1 &D3 &G0 &J0 &L0 &Q0 &R3 &S1 &T4 &X0
S000:1   S001=0   S002=43  S003=13  S004=10  S005=8   S006=2   S007:120
S008=2   S009=6   S010=14  S011=70  S012=50  S018=0   S025=5   S026=1
S038=0   S041=0   S045=0   S046=0   S047=4   S048:1   S050=0   S051:6
S056=17  S057=19  S058:2   S059:15  S060=0   S061:0   S062=15  S063:1
S064=0   S068=255 S069=0   S090=0   S092:1   S093=8   S094=1   S100=0
S104=0   S105=1   S111=255 S112=1   S151=4   S155=0   S180=2   S181=1
S183=25  S190=1   S191=7   S253=10  S254=255 S255=255
OK

Hope this helps...
From: louis@netronix.com (Louis Valentino)
Newsgroups: comp.protocols.ppp
Subject: What is SLITHERNET? (was: Looking for information on PPP...)
Distribution: world
Date: Fri, 16 Oct 92 19:22:18 GMT
Organization: Netronix, Inc.

In article <11261@crackers.clearpoint.com> martillo@stars.clearpoint.com writes:

  > 
  > But a very major drawback to PPP is the use of multiple encapsulations
  > for the various network protocols which will essentially break the
  > path selection functionality of multi-media bridge routers.  
  > 
  > SLITHERNET which is currently supported (along with PPP) by
  > Clearpoint, DuPont, Datability and bridge routers from other vendors
  > in the near future is a better alternative for moderate to high-speed
  > WAN interconnectivity.
  > 
     [ stuff deleted ]
  > 
  > But you would have to be very careful, because in many cases
  > corporations really need to build synchronous interworking backbone
  > wide area communications subnets constructed from point to point, X.25
  > and FR links.  PPP unlike the SLITHERNET formalism will fail miserably
  > for this purpose...
  > 

My ignorance may be showing, but what exactly is SLITHERNET?  I haven't
seen any mention of it in the RFC index.  Is it described in an internet
draft?  Or is it from OSI-land?

  > --
  > Joachim Carlo Santos Martillo Ajami
  > 
  > The article represents noone's opinions other than the author's.
  >

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From: pej@cpg.trs.reuters.com (Paul Jatkowski)
Newsgroups: comp.protocols.ppp
Subject: PPP Sparc1+ Help
Date: 9 Oct 92 13:29:31 GMT
Reply-To: pej@cpg.trs.reuters.com (Paul Jatkowski)
Organization: REUTERS Information Management Systems

Hello,

I just installed ppp (ppp.p16 ?) on a sun 3/60 (4.1.1_U1) and a Sparc1+
(4.1.1).
(They are hardwired together and tip from the 3/60 to the 1+ works fine).
The 3/60 seems happy in that it sends messages and receives messages from the
1+. The Sparc1+, however, does not see any incomming data from the 3/60.

Debugging statements in ppp_async_rsrv and pp_async_rput indicate that
neither routine
is called (on the 1+).

Tip from either machine to the other works fine (assming I
enable/disable gettys properly).

Any ideas or suggestions???
Thanks,
Paul Jatkowski
Reuters Information Management Systems
pej@cpg.trs.reuter.com
(708) 574-7424 x2827

		-- additional information ----

Sparc output
	ppp: fsm_sconfreq(c021): Sent id 13.
	Alarm
	ppp: fsm_sconfreq(c021): Sent id 14.
	Alarm
	ppp: fsm_sconfreq(c021): Sent id 15.
	Alarm

Sun 3/60 output
	Alarm
	ppp: fsm_sconfreq(C021): set id 39.
	IO
	ppp: fsm_rconfreq(c021): Rcvd id 40.
	ppp: lcp_reqci: rcvd MRU(1500) (ACK)
	ppp: lcp_reqci: rcvd ASYNCMAP(0) (ACK)
	ppp: lcp_reqci: rcvd MAGICNUMBER(79de094e) (ACK)
	ppp: lcp_reqci: rcvd PCOMPRESSION (ACK)
	ppp: lcp_reqci: rcvd ACOMPRESSION (ACK)
	ppp: lcp_reqci: returning CONFACK
	Alarm
	....

Kernel level debugging is turned on on the sparc:

Oct  8 11:46:46 richs99 vmunix: ppp_async0: opening
Oct  8 11:46:46 richs99 vmunix: ppp_if0: open
Oct  8 11:46:46 richs99 vmunix: ppp: Pii->flags 0x9
Oct  8 11:46:46 richs99 vmunix: ppp_async: SIFASYNCMAP ffffffff
Oct  8 11:46:46 richs99 vmunix: ppp: Pii->flags 0x9
Oct  8 11:46:46 richs99 vmunix: ppp_if: SIFCOMPPROT 0
Oct  8 11:46:46 richs99 vmunix: ppp_async: SIFCOMPPROT 0
Oct  8 11:46:46 richs99 vmunix: ppp: Pii->flags 0x9
Oct  8 11:46:46 richs99 vmunix: ppp_if: SIFCOMPAC 0
Oct  8 11:46:46 richs99 vmunix: ppp_async: SIFCOMPAC 0
Oct  8 11:46:46 richs99 vmunix: ppp: Pii->flags 0x9

pstat -S on Sparc....

   LOC     WRQ       VNODE     DEVICE   PGRP SIGIO  FLAGS
ff03e9a4   ff03f724  ff0f7494  12,  0    402     0         N    BA       
  Write side:
    NAME      COUNT FLG    MINPS  MAXPS  HIWAT  LOWAT
    strwhead      0            0      0      0      0
    ppp_if        0  R         0    INF  16384   4096
    ppp_asyn      0  R         0    INF  16384   4096
    zs            0  R         0    INF   2048    128
  Read side:
    zs            0  R         0    INF   2048    128
    ppp_asyn      0  R         0    INF  16384   4096
    ppp_if        0  R         0    INF  16384   4096
    strrhead      0            0    INF    300    200

	......





Newsgroups: comp.protocols.ppp
From: bob@MorningStar.Com (Bob Sutterfield)
Subject: Re: Looking for information on PPP at T1 line rate
Organization: Morning Star Technologies
	<BOB.92Oct15120100@volitans.MorningStar.Com>
	<11261@crackers.clearpoint.com>
Date: Fri, 16 Oct 1992 20:38:32 GMT

In article <11261@crackers.clearpoint.com> martillo@stars.clearpoint.com (Joachim Martillo) writes:
   But a very major drawback to PPP is the use of multiple
   encapsulations for the various network protocols which will
   essentially break the path selection functionality of multi-media
   bridge routers.

For true believers of the pure Router faith, that's not a problem.

   SLITHERNET which is currently supported (along with PPP) by
   Clearpoint, DuPont, Datability and bridge routers from other
   vendors in the near future

I'll look for the SLITHERNET Demo Center at Interop.  (I doubt it will
be as crowded as PPP's :-)

   is a better alternative for moderate to high-speed WAN
   interconnectivity.

Yes, for those users who want to use SLITHERNET.  We've all been round
and round about this many times before, and I doubt we'll cover any
new ground here.

   ... corporations really need to build ... from point to point, X.25
   and FR links.  PPP unlike the SLITHERNET formalism will fail
   miserably for this purpose.

That's why they should use RFC-1356 or RFC-877 encapsulation over
X.25, and RFC-1294 over Frame Relay, rather than RFC-1331 PPP.  The
IETF has blessed different encapsulations for different media.  A user
should also be cautioned not to use a drill press where {s}he really
needs a putty knife.

   Buying bridges, routers and bridge routers which only support PPP
   could lock the purchaser into an inferior form of wide area
   networking.

That sounds like a piece of IBM marketing literature I recently heard
about: "Don't let yourself be locked into open systems!"
From: eddy@is.morgan.com (Edward Eldridge)
Subject: ppp and multitech modems
Organization: Morgan Stanley - IS
Date: Fri, 16 Oct 1992 15:15:24 GMT


has anybody any experience of using ppp with multitech multimodem?

cheers
eddy
From: senol@caroline.ee.pitt.edu (Senol Kucuk)
Newsgroups: comp.protocols.ppp
Subject: PPP client on the same domain...
Date: 15 Oct 92 00:14:21 GMT
Reply-To: Senol.Kucuk@caroline.ee.pitt.edu
Distribution: comp
Organization: University of Pittsburgh, Department of Electrical Engineering,
	Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition Lab.
X-Md4-Signature: a43975cc8ae80c75a10e71f6c43c9b73


	Howdy. I have a question about the IP numbers of the client
machine. Should the client be on a different domain? I would like
to make a PPP connection from a sparc 1+ with the IP x.y.z.t to the
client with the IP x.y.z.u. Is this possible? Thanks in advance...



--
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  Senol Kucuk, Department of Electrical Engineering, University of Pittsburgh
     {senol,snkst4,kucuk}@{{unix,vms}.cis.pitt.edu,pitt{vms,unix}.bitnet}
Newsgroups: comp.protocols.ppp
From: scoob@bnr.ca (Christian Marcotte)
Subject: ??? Free  PPP for sun3/sparc ???
Organization: Bell-Northern Research, Ontario, Canada
Date: Fri, 9 Oct 1992 21:46:41 GMT



	Hi !

	I want to install slip or PPP to connect a 3/60 from
	home to talk to a 4/110 server at work.

	I heard that there are a couple of Free implementations
	of PPP out there (From morning star's paper) and would
	like to know which one to use.

	I also want to consider slip since we might want to 
	connect to a future homebrew terminal server running
	VxWorks (which already has slip).  If the free PPP code
	is not to esotherique, we might want to port it to VxWorks.
	(BTW: VxWorks is a Real time UNIX made by Wind River).

	Here is a couple of questions I have:

	- Do all versions of slip require that I enable hardware flow control
	  on my serial port?  The version of slip I have now comes from
	  the article in UnixWorld (may) and requires activation of
	  hardware flow control.  While this is a simple eeprom command
	  on a sparc, I still have to figure out how to do it on a 3/60!!!
	  (I assume that it would be a flag to set on the zs controler
	   when we rebuild the kernel but "man zs" says nothing about it)

	- Is there a serious benefit in running CSLIP versus slip?
	- Are there many versions of CSLIP?
	- Are they stable & reliable?
	- Have you had good/bad experiences with one version or another
	  of CSLIP/SLIP/PPP?
	- Did anyone try a Free PPP and then switched to morning star?
	- If so, why?  Is it more reliable, faster, simpler???
	- Finally, are the Free versions of PPP reliable & easy to
	  install  (can be compared to slip installation).


	(If demands, I'll summarize to the net)


	Thanks for your help !

	-- Scoob


	OH! I almost forgot, how many 3/60 connected over microcom 
	14.4Kbaud v32/42 bis modem can a good old sun4/110 handle
	on a pair of ALM boards (multiple serial ports boards).


		
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Newsgroups: comp.protocols.ppp
From: dyck@mprgate.mpr.ca (Trevor Dyck)
Subject: ppp?
Originator: dyck@galaxy
Organization: MPR Teltech Ltd., Burnaby, B.C., Canada
Date: Wed, 14 Oct 92 21:51:30 GMT

Please excuse my ignorance, but I haven't found a FAQ on this subject.
If one exists, could someone please direct me to it?

Could someone please briefly explain what ppp is?  Does it stand for
anything?  It seems to be a protocol for sending TCP/IP packets over
asynchronous serial lines... correct?

Sorry again for asking something which is probably obvious to most
of you...

Any help is appreciated!


-- 
Trevor Dyck (dyck@mpr.ca)      | "The number of Unix installations has grown 
Advanced Technology Division   |  to 10, with more expected" 
MPR Teltech Ltd. 	       |  -- The Unix Programmer's Manual, 2nd Edition,
8999 Nelson Way, Burnaby, BC   |     June, 1972 
Newsgroups: comp.protocols.ppp
From: rouquett@Aig.Jpl.Nasa.Gov (Nicolas Rouquette)
Subject: modem setup for Intel & Hayes
Reply-To: rouquett@aig.jpl.nasa.gov
Organization: NASA/Jet Propulsion Laboratory
Date: Mon, 12 Oct 1992 20:35:47 GMT

Can anyone post/e-mail configurations for using the Intel 14.4ex and
 Hayes Optima 144 modems with ppp (specifically dp-2.2-beta).
Maybe this type of information for other modems should be kept in a FAQ 
somewhere (?)

-- 
----------Nicolas Rouquette----------rouquett@aig.jpl.nasa.gov
    Artificial Intelligence Group
      Jet Propulsion Laboratory
From: ada@zip.larc.nasa.gov (Anthony Arviola)
Newsgroups: comp.protocols.ppp
Subject: Telebit != Service
Date: 15 Oct 92 10:59:26
Organization: NASA Langley Research Center, Hampton, VA
Distribution: comp
NNTP-Posting-Host: zip.larc.nasa.gov
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Has anyone delt with Telebit?  We bought a Netblazer with the intent on
using it to set up PPP connections between Home and the network.
The problem is that every time I call for tech. support, they take my
name and number and the person calls THE NEXT DAY while I'm working on
some other project or when I'm not in my office.  If I'm not in my office,
the Telebit person leaves a message and never calls back causing me to 
call back, leave my name and number and WAIT ANOTHER DAY.  This truly is
a shotty way of "customer support".  

Is anybody else using the NetBlazer or has the rest of the world given up
on it?

Sorry about the bitch, but future Telebit customers beware.
From: lra00@pecan.spa.amdahl.com (Larry R. Ader)
Newsgroups: comp.protocols.ppp
Subject: dp-2.2-beta problems
Date: 10 Oct 92 13:24:19 GMT
Organization: Amdahl Corporation  Sunnyvale, CA


I thought I'd send this to both comp.protocols.ppp and the mailing list
for dp-2.2-beta; hopefully somebody can help me...

I have recently installed dp-2.2-beta on my Sun ELC (SunOS4.1.2) and
have read through the DialupPPP.doc several times.  I reconfigured the
kernel and added the appropriate /etc/dp files.  I am slightly at a
loss as to what to add to /etc/hostname.dp0, so I didn't use it.  Instead,
I added the line:

  ifconfig dp0 129.212.49.100 129.212.49.101 netmask + -trailers up 

to /etc/rc.boot.

My machine (hostname = echidna) is a standalone machine (at home) and
as such, doesn't have an ethernet connection.  In /etc, I only have
one hostname.??0 file, and that is hostname.xx0 with the contents:
echidna.

In my /etc/hosts file, I have the following lines:
127.0.0.1	echidna localhost loghost
129.212.49.100	echidna-dp0
129.212.49.101	pecan-dp0

"pecan" is a Solbourne machine that I administer at work, with the
129.212.49.* IP addresses assigned to its subdomain.  This is the
machine that I intend to connect to, but first things first.

After adding the above "ifconfig..." line to /etc/rc.boot, and then
rebooting, I see the following error messages (interspersed with normal
messages):

keyserv: unable to register service
rpc.statd: unable to register (SM_PROG, SM_VERS, udp)
Oct 10 01:53:31 echidna inetd [117]: Cannot register service: RPC: Unable to send; errno = Host is unreachable

I have no idea what I'm doing wrong... Does anybody out there have a clue?
This is the first time that I've ever rebuilt the kernel on this machine,
so I haven't messed with any of the config files.  I have also not messed
(much) with /etc/rc.boot or /etc/rc.local or any of the /etc files for that
matter, so they should be in the same state as when I loaded the OS.

And another problem....

Ignoring the above errors, I manually invoke dpd using the following
command:

/usr/etc/dpd -d 3

"dpd" just core dumps (and does not run).  There is nothing reported in
/var/adm/dp/.  Any hints on this one??  I have heard that it (dpd) core
dumps (sometimes) when the dp-conf files aren't setup properly...
Is this true??  If so, where do I start looking for errors?

Any help with these problems would be greatly appreciated,

Larry Ader


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Newsgroups: comp.protocols.ppp
From: devolder@matt.ksu.ksu.edu (Eric DeVolder)
Newsgroups: comp.protocols.ppp
Subject: Problem with LCP negotiations
Date: 15 Oct 1992 10:16:32 -0500
Organization: Kansas State University
Distribution: usa
NNTP-Posting-Host: matt.ksu.ksu.edu

I am trying to run PPP between two PCs.  One of the PCs, my PPP server, has
a connection to the ethernet.  Right now, I have a null modem cable (3 pins)
connecting the two machines together.

After running NET.EXE on both machines, I discover that both machines are
waiting to negotiate LCP.  By doing a 'ppp status pp0', i see that the server
is sending LCP packets.  I also see that the client is also sending LCP
packets.  ( I have both set to activeopen. ).  However, the server can 
receive the LCP packets from the client, but the client is not receiving 
any LCP packets from the server!  The server seems to be responding, but
the client is not!

HELP!  Any idea why this would be?  Do I need a cable that has CTS, etc. 
signals?  ANy ideas would be greatly appreciated at this time!

Eric
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Newsgroups: comp.protocols.ppp