authenticating itself to you, of course.)
-What's new in ppp-2.3.5.
+What's new in ppp-2.3.6.
************************
+* Pppd now opens the tty device as the user (rather than as root) if
+ the device name was given by the user, i.e. on the command line or
+ in the ~/.ppprc file. If the device name was given in
+ /etc/ppp/options or in a file loaded with the `call' option, the
+ device is opened as root.
+
+* The default behaviour of pppd is now to let a peer which has not
+ authenticated itself (e.g. your ISP) use any IP address to which the
+ system does not already have a route. (This is currently only
+ supported under Linux, Solaris and Digital Unix; on the other
+ systems, the peer must now authenticate itself unless the noauth
+ option is used.)
+
+* Added new option `usepeerdns', thanks to Nick Walker
+ <nickwalker@email.com>. If the peer supplies DNS addresses, these
+ will be written to /etc/ppp/resolv.conf. The ip-up script can then
+ be used to add these addresses to /etc/resolv.conf if desired (see
+ the ip-up.local.add and ip-down.local.add files in the scripts
+ directory).
+
+* The Solaris ppp driver should now work correctly on SMP systems.
+
+* Minor corrections so that the code can compile under Solaris 7,
+ and under Linux with glibc-2.1.
+
+* The Linux kernel driver has been restructured for improved
+ performance.
+
+* Pppd now won't start the ip-down script until the ip-up script has
+ finished.
+
+
+What was new in ppp-2.3.5.
+**************************
+
* Minor corrections to the Digital UNIX and NetBSD ports.
* A workaround to avoid tickling a bug in the `se' serial port driver
If you find bugs in this package, please report them to the maintainer
for the port for the operating system you are using:
-Digital Unix (OSF/1) Farrell Woods <ftw@zk3.dec.com>
-Linux Al Longyear <longyear@pobox.com>
-NetBSD Matthew Green <mrg@eterna.com.au
+Digital Unix (OSF/1) Sowmini Varadhan <varadhan@zk3.dec.com>
+Linux Paul Mackerras <Paul.Mackerras@cs.anu.edu.au>
+NetBSD Matthew Green <mrg@eterna.com.au>
FreeBSD Peter Wemm <peter@haywire.DIALix.COM>
NeXTStep Steve Perkins <perkins@cps.msu.edu>
Solaris 2 Paul Mackerras <Paul.Mackerras@cs.anu.edu.au>
-SunOS 4.x Paul Mackerras <Paul.Mackerras@cs.anu.edu.au>
+SunOS 4.x Paul Mackerras (for want of anybody better :-)
System V Release 4 Matthias Apitz <Matthias.Apitz@SOFTCON.de>
Ultrix 4.x Paul Mackerras (for want of anybody better :-)
ftp://cs.anu.edu.au/pub/software/ppp/
-($Id: README,v 1.13 1998/05/04 06:14:31 paulus Exp $)
+($Id: README,v 1.15 1999/03/10 05:10:47 paulus Exp $)