From owner-freebsd-isp Sat Jun 14 10:04:50 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id KAA29702 for isp-outgoing; Sat, 14 Jun 1997 10:04:50 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mpeks.tomsk.su (mpeks.tomsk.su [193.124.185.19]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id KAA29688 for ; Sat, 14 Jun 1997 10:04:28 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from uucp@localhost) by mpeks.tomsk.su (8.6.11/8.6.9) with UUCP id BAA04784 for isp@freebsd.org; Sun, 15 Jun 1997 01:04:07 +0800 Received: (from vas@localhost) by vas.tomsk.su (8.8.5/8.8.3) id VAA04717 for isp@freebsd.org; Sat, 14 Jun 1997 21:34:45 +0800 (TSD) From: "Victor A. Sudakov" Message-Id: <199706141334.VAA04717@vas.tomsk.su> Subject: Re: PPP problems. To: isp@freebsd.org Date: Sat, 14 Jun 1997 21:34:45 +0800 (TSD) In-Reply-To: from "Adrian Chadd" at "Jun 13, 97 05:01:46 pm" Organization: Tomsk Region Education Department X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL22 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-isp@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Adrian Chadd wrote: > Yes, the internet isn't based around lots of Windows machines setting the > 'standard'.. if Microsoft don't adhere to the standards set down by the > internet then too fucking bad. Either it talks properly (ie UNIX) they > don't talk at all. > > If they get shitty about it.. stick the RFC in their face and say "read > and adhere". If they choose not to.. Well theres the problem. It works > with the majority of their users (ie Windows) so why should they change > anything? > > Sad, isn't it. Yes, this is exactly what I am afraid of. The reason of my having started this thread is that I am trying to understand if ISPs can prevent this from happening. -- Victor Sudakov http://www.tomsk.su/r/persons/vas.htm