authenticating itself to you, of course.)
-What's new in ppp-2.3.9.
-************************
+What's new in ppp-2.3.11.
+*************************
+
+* Support for Solaris 8 has been added, including support for
+ replumbing and IPV6.
+
+* The Solaris `snoop' utility should now work on ppp interfaces.
+
+* New hooks have been added - pap_logout_hook, ip_up_hook, and
+ ip_down_hook.
+
+* A new `passprompt' plugin is included, thanks to Alan Curry, which
+ makes it possible for pppd to call an external program to get the
+ PAP password to send to the peer.
+
+* The error messages for the situation where authentication is
+ required because the system has a default route have been improved.
+
+* There is a new connect_delay option which specifies how long pppd
+ should pause after the connect script finishes. Previously this
+ delay was fixed at 1 second. (This delay terminates as soon as pppd
+ sees a valid PPP frame from the peer.)
+
+* The `hide-password' option is now the default, and there is a new
+ `show-password' option to enable the printing of password strings in
+ the debug output.
+
+* A fairly complete list of the names of PPP protocols has been added
+ so that when pppd rejects a frame because its protocol is not
+ supported, it can print the name of the unsupported protocol.
+
+* Synchronous serial lines are supported under Linux 2.3.x.
+
+* The bug where pppd would not recognize a modem hangup under Linux
+ 2.3.x kernels has been fixed.
+
+
+What was new in ppp-2.3.10.
+***************************
+
+* Pppd now supports `plugins', which are pieces of code (packaged as
+ shared libraries) which can be loaded into pppd at runtime and which
+ can affect its behaviour. The intention is that plugins provide a
+ way for people to customize the behaviour of pppd for their own
+ needs without needing to change the base pppd source. I have added
+ some hooks into pppd (places where pppd will call a function
+ pointer, if non-zero, to replace some of pppd's code) and I will be
+ receptive to suggestions about places to add more hooks. Plugins
+ are supported under Linux and Solaris at present.
+
+* We have a new maintainer for the Solaris port, Adi Masputra of Sun
+ Microsystems, and he has updated the Solaris port so that it should
+ work on 64-bit machines under Solaris 7 and later.
+
+* Pppd now has an `allow-ip' option, which takes an argument which is
+ an IP address (or subnet) which peers are permitted to use without
+ authenticating themselves. The argument takes the same form as each
+ element of the allowed IP address list in the secrets files. The
+ allow-ip option is privileged and may be specified multiple times.
+ Using the allow-ip option should be cleaner than putting a line like
+ `"" * "" address' in /etc/ppp/pap-secrets.
+
+* Chat can now substitute environment variables into the script. This
+ is enabled by the -E flag. (Thanks to Andreas Arens for the patch.)
+
+* If the PAP username and password from the peer contains unprintable
+ characters, they will be translated to a printable form before
+ looking in the pap-secrets file. Characters >= 0x80 are translated
+ to a M- form, and characters from 0 to 0x1f (and 0x7f as well) are
+ translated to a ^X form. If this change causes you grief, let me
+ know what would be a better translation. It appears that some peers
+ send nulls or other control characters in their usernames and
+ passwords.
+
+* Pppd has new `ktune' and `noktune' options, which enable/disable
+ it to change kernel settings as appropriate. This is only
+ implemented under Linux, and requires the /proc filesystem to be
+ mounted. Under Linux, with the ktune option, pppd will enable IP
+ forwarding in the kernel if the proxyarp option is used, and will
+ enable the dynamic IP address kernel option in demand mode if the
+ local IP address changes.
+
+* Pppd no longer requires a remote address to be specified for demand
+ dialling. If none is specified, it will use a default value of
+ 10.112.112.112+unit_number. (It will not propose this default to
+ the peer.)
+
+* The default holdoff is now 0 if no connect script is given.
+
+* The IPV6 code from Tommi Komulainen, which I unfortunately only
+ partially merged in to ppp-2.3.9, has been fixed and updated.
+
+* The linux compilation glitches should be fixed now.
+
+
+What was new in ppp-2.3.9.
+**************************
* Support for the new generic PPP layer under development for the
Linux kernel.
If you find bugs in this package, please report them to the maintainer
for the port for the operating system you are using:
-Linux Paul Mackerras <Paul.Mackerras@cs.anu.edu.au>
-Solaris 2 Paul Mackerras (for want of anybody better :-)
-SunOS 4.x Paul Mackerras (for want of anybody better :-)
+Linux Paul Mackerras <paulus@linuxcare.com>
+Solaris 2 Adi Masputra <adi.masputra@sun.com>
+SunOS 4.x Adi Masputra <adi.masputra@sun.com>
Digital Unix (OSF/1) Sowmini Varadhan <varadhan@zk3.dec.com>
NetBSD Matthew Green <mrg@eterna.com.au>
FreeBSD Peter Wemm <peter@haywire.DIALix.COM>
ftp://cs.anu.edu.au/pub/software/ppp/
-($Id: README,v 1.19 1999/08/13 01:54:02 paulus Exp $)
+($Id: README,v 1.22 1999/12/23 01:40:09 paulus Exp $)
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