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In article <1992Nov9.225552.519@sol.cs.wmich.edu> stempien@sol.cs.wmich.edu (Brian Stempien) writes:
>Ok, I have looked at several questions posted along these lines and thought
>I would ask one myself to summarize.
>
>I would like all infomration on PPP for dos machines. I know ka9q exists,
>but I would like a packet driver that I can use with other software. I have

[misc stuff deleted]

If you find this, please post where you got it :-)

>
>On another note, which of the freeware ( I think that is as close to a
>description as I can get ) PPP implimentaions for UNIX machines is best?
>I am setting up PPP for several of our professors here, and would like to
>know which one to use. The hardware is Sun4/110's and Sun IPC's, with
>generic modems. I am looking for ease of installation and reliability.

I use ppp-sparc4.1.1 and I like it a lot.  I have a Telebit t2500 talking 
to a t3000 hooked to a Telebit Netblazer (Dialup Router).

>Also, will PPP handle NFS traffic over the link? Well I have taken up
>enough bandwith, responses by email will be summarized. Thanks for
>everyones time.

You can use NFS over the link.  It is slow and you do have to "tune it."
In my application (SS1+ t2500 - t3000 Netblazer), I had to tune NFS
like this:
host:/home /home nfs rw,hard,rsize=4096,wsize=4096,timeo=150 0 0

The timeout of 15 seconds and the reduced read size/write size make it
usable to a degree (~1.3-1.6Kbytes/second compared to 1.8Kbytes/s for
rcp -- a limitation of the 19.2Kbps I locked the serial port to).  I had
to do things via NFS since I have a data file on the host that controls
an application I use.  It works well, considering the slow speed.  As far
as tunign NFS for the slow links, I would highly recommend the O'Reilly
book "Managing NFS and NIS."  It has a performance section which 
helps immensely.


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