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<book id="WANGuide">
 <bookinfo>
  <title>Synchronous PPP and Cisco HDLC Programming Guide</title>
  
  <authorgroup>
   <author>
    <firstname>Alan</firstname>
    <surname>Cox</surname>
    <affiliation>
     <address>
      <email>alan@redhat.com</email>
     </address>
    </affiliation>
   </author>
  </authorgroup>

  <copyright>
   <year>2000</year>
   <holder>Alan Cox</holder>
  </copyright>

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   <para>
     For more details see the file COPYING in the source
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   </para>
  </legalnotice>
 </bookinfo>

<toc></toc>

  <chapter id="intro">
      <title>Introduction</title>
  <para>
	The syncppp drivers in Linux provide a fairly complete 
	implementation of Cisco HDLC and a minimal implementation of
	PPP. The longer term goal is to switch the PPP layer to the
	generic PPP interface that is new in Linux 2.3.x. The API should
	remain unchanged when this is done, but support will then be
	available for IPX, compression and other PPP features
  </para>
  </chapter>
  <chapter id="bugs">
     <title>Known Bugs And Assumptions</title>
  <para>
  <variablelist>
    <varlistentry><term>PPP is minimal</term>
    <listitem>
    <para>
	The current PPP implementation is very basic, although sufficient
	for most wan usages.
    </para>
    </listitem></varlistentry>

    <varlistentry><term>Cisco HDLC Quirks</term>
    <listitem>
    <para>
	Currently we do not end all packets with the correct Cisco multicast
	or unicast flags. Nothing appears to mind too much but this should
	be corrected.
    </para>
    </listitem></varlistentry>
  </variablelist>
	
  </para>
  </chapter>

  <chapter id="pubfunctions">
     <title>Public Functions Provided</title>
!Edrivers/net/wan/syncppp.c
  </chapter>

</book>
