On Sat, Sep 30, 2000 at 11:24:34AM -0400, Alicia da Conceicao wrote:
> Lately I find myself doing a lot of business travel, particularly to Asia
> Pacific; in fact I have been out of the country for nearly 5 months this
> year with my NetBSD laptop. 
>  
> I find myself quite envious of my sales manager, who sometimes joins me on
> my trips, and has one of those unlimited $20/month AOL accounts.  He is
> always able to find a local AOL PPP pop in each city of each country we
> have visited (Hong Kong, Singapore, Tokyo, Bangkok, Kuala Lumpur, Sydney,
> Vienna, Amsterdam, etc.).  Yes, I know AOL & their software sucks, but
> when one is in a strange country and needs PPP access, who cares!  To the
> best of my knowledge, no other PPP provider has anything close to the
> number of countries with local pops as AOL.

I think AOL uses a proprietary protocol instead of ppp.
My boss is using compuserve for internet access while traveling, which seems
to use a regular ppp.

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Manuel Bouyer, LIP6, Universite Paris VI.           Manuel.Bouyer@lip6.fr
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