Re: Livingston PPP compatable with Apple Open Transport

Ian M. Smith (iansmith@ncinter.net)
Tue, 4 Jun 1996 20:34:18 -0400 (EDT)

On Tue, 4 Jun 1996, Douglas C. Semonche wrote:
> A user who upgraded hss Mac OS started getting some
> sort of web slowup (nameservice or transfer) and
> after he called Apple he reported that they
> said something to the effect:
>
> you provider must be compatable with "Open
> Transport" - the coming standard.

Actually, all his provider needs to do is be compatable with PPP
standards. Have this user turn off all unneeded extensions. ALL
of them. That clears up about 90% of our users problems. The rest
are usualy configuration errors.

> We haven't changed anything but this is the
> first I've heard of Open Transport and
> I assume any compatability issue would
> be with the portmaster's ppp.

Why? Apple completely re-designs their TCP/IP stack and any
incompatibilities have to be Livingstons fault?

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