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Re: SCO PPP (TCP/IP v1.2) problems

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From: Stephen R Davies
Date: Mon, 09 Aug 1993 18:36
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In article <CBB7AL.CqC@gator.oau.org> larry@gator.oau.org (Larry D Snyder) writes:
>dhatz@pythia.csi.forth.gr (Dhmhtrhs Hatzopoulos) writes:
>
>>I'd appreciate it very much, if someone who has successfully setup
>>SCO's PPP (from SCO TCP/IP v1.2.0i) would give me a few hints about 
>>it. I'm trying to configure it to operate over dialup serial links,
>
>What are you trying to connect with on the other end?  I remember
>hearing somewhere, that one of the releases of SCO had problems 
>where as PPP was based on old standards and wouldn't talk with 
>any other PPP device in the real world (unless of course, they
>also were running this older release of PPP).  I would suggest you
>make sure you have all the updates to your SCO PPP..

This is correct. PPP in SCO TCP/IP 1.1.3 works apparently :-) but they
took a retrograde step and messed it up in 1.2.0. They are meant to have
it mended in 1.2.1, but I can't guarantee this.

The above comes from reading biz.sco.general, so it's probably nearly
mostly right (perhaps :-)

Steve.
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