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Brown 122.%A A. Malis 123.%T "Multiprotocol Interconnect over Frame Relay" 124.%O RFC 2427 125.Re 126.Rs 127.%A W. Simpson 128.%T "PPP in Frame Relay" 129.%O RFC 1973 130.Re 131.Pp 132.Pa http://www.cisco.com/warp/public/121/frf8modes.pdf 133.Sh HISTORY 134The 135.Nm 136node type was implemented in 137.Fx 4.0 . 138.Sh AUTHORS 139.An Julian Elischer Aq julian@FreeBSD.org 140.Sh BUGS 141Not all of RFC 1490 is implemented. 142