Re: [Pppext] Proposal to solve ML-PPP ambiguity

Vernon Schryver <vjs@calcite.rhyolite.com> Thu, 26 May 2011 21:55 UTC

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> From: James Carlson <carlsonj@workingcode.com>
> To: Vineet kumar Garg <vineet.garg@aricent.com>
> Cc: "pppext@ietf.org" <pppext@ietf.org>

> For what it's worth, although I agree that an implementor's guide might
> be helpful,  

What's wrong with the existing implementors' guides?  I thought at
least this one mentioned that de facto standard tactic for handling
MP misconfiguration:

    "PPP Design, Implementation, and Debugging" (2nd Edition)
    by James D. Carlson ISBN: 0201700530

See
http://www.google.com/search?q=PPP+Design%2C+Implementation%2C+and+Debugging
http://www.workingcode.com/ppp/


Vernon Schryver    vjs@rhyolite.com