erpcd-talker is a couple of minimal programs to talk to an erpcd to verify a username/password and ask for an IP address. This code has been integrated into pppd at UWA where it is used for authentication of PPTP with PoPToP under Linux. Also in this directory is a small fake ftp daemon which acts as an authentication gateway for FTP -> erpcd for some Mac programs which check a username and password via FTP. It should be improved to have a SIGALRM timeout in the case of both the FTPd and the pppd patches, but I haven't done this. David Luyer