walter harms wrote: > The question is do they need ppp at all ? I certainly has advantages to use > tcp/ip but it is no requirement is several cases. Going with a more simple > protocol can reduce the overhead considerable. Please explain. What "more simple protocol" are you suggesting? SLIP, perhaps? I expect that the original poster's design constraints include having an interoperable implementation -- that is, being able to talk to peer machines built by other vendors. Whether the overhead is "considerable" or not doesn't seem to factor into the choice. -- James Carlson 42.703N 71.076W <carlsonj@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-ppp" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html