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 | 4 |  | 
 | 5 | <book id="WANGuide"> | 
 | 6 |  <bookinfo> | 
 | 7 |   <title>Synchronous PPP and Cisco HDLC Programming Guide</title> | 
 | 8 |    | 
 | 9 |   <authorgroup> | 
 | 10 |    <author> | 
 | 11 |     <firstname>Alan</firstname> | 
 | 12 |     <surname>Cox</surname> | 
 | 13 |     <affiliation> | 
 | 14 |      <address> | 
 | 15 |       <email>alan@redhat.com</email> | 
 | 16 |      </address> | 
 | 17 |     </affiliation> | 
 | 18 |    </author> | 
 | 19 |   </authorgroup> | 
 | 20 |  | 
 | 21 |   <copyright> | 
 | 22 |    <year>2000</year> | 
 | 23 |    <holder>Alan Cox</holder> | 
 | 24 |   </copyright> | 
 | 25 |  | 
 | 26 |   <legalnotice> | 
 | 27 |    <para> | 
 | 28 |      This documentation is free software; you can redistribute | 
 | 29 |      it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public | 
 | 30 |      License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either | 
 | 31 |      version 2 of the License, or (at your option) any later | 
 | 32 |      version. | 
 | 33 |    </para> | 
 | 34 |        | 
 | 35 |    <para> | 
 | 36 |      This program is distributed in the hope that it will be | 
 | 37 |      useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied | 
 | 38 |      warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. | 
 | 39 |      See the GNU General Public License for more details. | 
 | 40 |    </para> | 
 | 41 |        | 
 | 42 |    <para> | 
 | 43 |      You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public | 
 | 44 |      License along with this program; if not, write to the Free | 
 | 45 |      Software Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place, Suite 330, Boston, | 
 | 46 |      MA 02111-1307 USA | 
 | 47 |    </para> | 
 | 48 |        | 
 | 49 |    <para> | 
 | 50 |      For more details see the file COPYING in the source | 
 | 51 |      distribution of Linux. | 
 | 52 |    </para> | 
 | 53 |   </legalnotice> | 
 | 54 |  </bookinfo> | 
 | 55 |  | 
 | 56 | <toc></toc> | 
 | 57 |  | 
 | 58 |   <chapter id="intro"> | 
 | 59 |       <title>Introduction</title> | 
 | 60 |   <para> | 
 | 61 | 	The syncppp drivers in Linux provide a fairly complete  | 
 | 62 | 	implementation of Cisco HDLC and a minimal implementation of | 
 | 63 | 	PPP. The longer term goal is to switch the PPP layer to the | 
 | 64 | 	generic PPP interface that is new in Linux 2.3.x. The API should | 
 | 65 | 	remain unchanged when this is done, but support will then be | 
 | 66 | 	available for IPX, compression and other PPP features | 
 | 67 |   </para> | 
 | 68 |   </chapter> | 
 | 69 |   <chapter id="bugs"> | 
 | 70 |      <title>Known Bugs And Assumptions</title> | 
 | 71 |   <para> | 
 | 72 |   <variablelist> | 
 | 73 |     <varlistentry><term>PPP is minimal</term> | 
 | 74 |     <listitem> | 
 | 75 |     <para> | 
 | 76 | 	The current PPP implementation is very basic, although sufficient | 
 | 77 | 	for most wan usages. | 
 | 78 |     </para> | 
 | 79 |     </listitem></varlistentry> | 
 | 80 |  | 
 | 81 |     <varlistentry><term>Cisco HDLC Quirks</term> | 
 | 82 |     <listitem> | 
 | 83 |     <para> | 
 | 84 | 	Currently we do not end all packets with the correct Cisco multicast | 
 | 85 | 	or unicast flags. Nothing appears to mind too much but this should | 
 | 86 | 	be corrected. | 
 | 87 |     </para> | 
 | 88 |     </listitem></varlistentry> | 
 | 89 |   </variablelist> | 
 | 90 | 	 | 
 | 91 |   </para> | 
 | 92 |   </chapter> | 
 | 93 |  | 
 | 94 |   <chapter id="pubfunctions"> | 
 | 95 |      <title>Public Functions Provided</title> | 
 | 96 | !Edrivers/net/wan/syncppp.c | 
 | 97 |   </chapter> | 
 | 98 |  | 
 | 99 | </book> |