authenticating itself to you, of course.)
-What's new in ppp-2.3.8.
-************************
+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.
+
+* You can now place extra options to apply to specific users at the
+ end of the line with their password in the pap-secrets or
+ chap-secrets file, separated from the IP address(es) with a "--"
+ separator. These options are parsed after the peer is authenticated
+ but before network protocol (IPCP, IPXCP) or CCP negotiation
+ commences.
+
+* Pppd will apply the holdoff period if the link was terminated by the
+ peer. It doesn't apply it if the link was terminated because the
+ local pppd thought it was idle.
+
+* Synchronous support for Solaris has been added, thanks to John
+ Morrison, and for FreeBSD, thanks to Paul Fulghum.
+
+* IPV6 support has been merged in, from Tommi Komulainen. At the
+ moment it only supports Linux and it is not tested by me.
+
+* The `nodefaultip' option can be used in demand mode to say that pppd
+ should not suggest its local IP address to the peer.
+
+* The `init' option has been added; this causes pppd to run a script
+ to initialize the serial device (e.g. by sending an init string to
+ the modem). Unlike the connect option, this can be used in a
+ dial-in situation. (Thanks to Tobias Ringstrom.)
+
+* There is a new `logfile' option to send log messages to a file as
+ well as syslog.
+
+* There is a new, privileged `linkname' option which sets a logical
+ name for the link. Pppd will create a /var/run/ppp-<linkname>.pid
+ file containing its process ID.
+
+* There is a new `maxfail' option which specifies how many consecutive
+ failed connection attempts are permitted before pppd will exit. The
+ default value is 10, and 0 means infinity. :-)
+
+* Sundry bugs fixed.
+
+
+What was new in ppp-2.3.8.
+**************************
* The exit status of pppd will now indicate whether the link was
successfully established, or if not, what error was encountered.
Thanks to those who reported bugs in ppp-2.2.
+Compression methods.
+********************
+
+This package supports two packet compression methods: Deflate and
+BSD-Compress. Other compression methods which are in common use
+include Predictor, LZS, and MPPC. These methods are not supported for
+two reasons - they are patent-encumbered, and they cause some packets
+to expand slightly, which pppd doesn't currently allow for.
+BSD-Compress is also patent-encumbered (its inclusion in this package
+can be considered a historical anomaly :-) but it doesn't ever expand
+packets. Neither does Deflate, which uses the same algorithm as gzip.
+
+
Patents.
********
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 <Paul.Mackerras@cs.anu.edu.au>
-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>
Copyrights:
***********
-All of the code can be freely used and redistributed.
+All of the code can be freely used and redistributed. The individual
+source files each have their own copyright and permission notice; some
+have a BSD-style notice and some are under the GPL.
Distribution:
ftp://cs.anu.edu.au/pub/software/ppp/
-($Id: README,v 1.17 1999/05/13 00:30:16 paulus Exp $)
+($Id: README,v 1.22 1999/12/23 01:40:09 paulus Exp $)
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