-The pppd program comes from the free distribution of PPP for Suns and
-386BSD machines, maintained by Paul Mackerras. This package lists
-"thanks to" Brad Parker, Greg Christy, Drew D. Perkins, Rick Adams and
-Chris Torek.
+Paul Mackerras rewrote and restructured the code for improved
+performance and to make a cleaner separation between the
+network-interface and async TTY parts of the ppp driver.
+
+Nick Walker added the code to pppd to query the peer for DNS server
+addresses.
+
+
+USING THE NEW PPP KERNEL DRIVER
+
+As of kernel version 2.3.13, the development series of kernels contain
+a new kernel PPP driver, rewritten from scratch by Paul Mackerras.
+This package supports the new driver, although it doesn't include the
+source for the new driver.
+
+The new driver is divided into two files: ppp_generic.c and
+ppp_async.c. If you compile PPP as a module, you will get two
+separate modules, called ppp_generic and ppp_async.
+Another module ppp_synctty is used for synchronous tty devices
+such as high-speed WAN adapters for leased T1/E1 lines.
+
+To talk to the new driver, pppd needs to be able to open /dev/ppp,
+character device (108,0). If you are using devfs, the device
+filesystem, the /dev/ppp node will automagically appear when the
+ppp_generic module is loaded, or at startup if ppp_generic is compiled
+in.