The Point-to-Point Protocol (PPP) provides a standard way to establish
a network connection over a serial link. At present, this package
supports IP and the protocols layered above IP, such as TCP and UDP.
-The Linux port of this package also has support for IPX.
+The Linux and Solaris ports of this package have optional support for
+IPV6; the Linux port of this package also has support for IPX.
This software consists of two parts:
- Kernel code, which establishes a network interface and passes
packets between the serial port, the kernel networking code and the
PPP daemon (pppd). This code is implemented using STREAMS modules on
-SunOS 4.x and Solaris, and as a line discipline under Linux and FreeBSD.
+Solaris, and as a line discipline under Linux.
- The PPP daemon (pppd), which negotiates with the peer to establish
the link and sets up the ppp network interface. Pppd includes support
files, are:
Linux README.linux
- Solaris 2 README.sol2
- SunOS 4.x README.sunos4
+ Solaris README.sol2
In each case you start by running the ./configure script. This works
out which operating system you are using and creates symbolic links to
authenticating itself to you, of course.)
-What's new in ppp-2.4.0.
+What's new in ppp-2.4.2.
************************
+* The CHAP code has been rewritten. Pppd now has support for MS-CHAP
+ V1 and V2 authentication, both as server and client. The new CHAP
+ code is cleaner than the old code and avoids some copyright problems
+ that existed in the old code.
+
+* MPPE (Microsoft Point-to-Point Encryption) support has been added,
+ although the current implementation shouldn't be considered
+ completely secure. (There is no assurance that the current code
+ won't ever transmit an unencrypted packet.)
+
+* James Carlson's implementation of the Extensible Authentication
+ Protocol (EAP) has been added.
+
+* Support for the Encryption Control Protocol (ECP) has been added.
+
+* Some new plug-ins have been included:
+ - A plug-in for kernel-mode PPPoE (PPP over Ethernet)
+ - A plug-in for supplying the PAP password over a pipe from another
+ process
+ - A plug-in for authenticating using a Radius server.
+
+* Updates and bug-fixes for the Solaris port.
+
+* The CBCP (Call Back Control Protocol) code has been updated. There
+ are new options `remotenumber' and `allow-number'.
+
+* Extra hooks for plugins to use have been added.
+
+* There is now a `maxoctets' option, which causes pppd to terminate
+ the link once the number of bytes passed on the link exceeds a given
+ value.
+
+* There are now options to control whether pppd can use the IPCP
+ IP-Address and IP-Addresses options: `ipcp-no-address' and
+ `ipcp-no-addresses'.
+
+* Fixed several bugs, including potential buffer overflows in chat.
+
+
+What was new in ppp-2.4.1.
+**************************
+
+* Pppd can now print out the set of options that are in effect. The
+ new `dump' option causes pppd to print out the option values after
+ option parsing is complete. The `dryrun' option causes pppd to
+ print the options and then exit.
+
+* The option parsing code has been fixed so that options in the
+ per-tty options file are parsed correctly, and don't override values
+ from the command line in most cases.
+
+* The plugin option now looks in /usr/lib/pppd/<pppd-version> (for
+ example, /usr/lib/pppd/2.4.1b1) for shared objects for plugins if
+ there is no slash in the plugin name.
+
+* When loading a plugin, pppd will now check the version of pppd for
+ which the plugin was compiled, and refuse to load it if it is
+ different to pppd's version string. To enable this, the plugin
+ source needs to #include "pppd.h" and have a line saying:
+ char pppd_version[] = VERSION;
+
+* There is a bug in zlib, discovered by James Carlson, which can cause
+ kernel memory corruption if Deflate is used with the lowest setting,
+ 8. As a workaround pppd will now insist on using at least 9.
+
+* Pppd should compile on Solaris and SunOS again.
+
+* Pppd should now set the MTU correctly on demand-dialled interfaces.
+
+
+What was new in ppp-2.4.0.
+**************************
+
* Multilink: this package now allows you to combine multiple serial
links into one logical link or `bundle', for increased bandwidth and
reduced latency. This is currently only supported under the
- Linux-2.3.99pre5 or later kernels.
+ 2.4.x and later Linux kernels.
* All the pppd processes running on a system now write information
into a common database. I used the `tdb' code from samba for this.
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 <paulus@linuxcare.com>
-Solaris 2 Adi Masputra <adi.masputra@sun.com>
-SunOS 4.x Adi Masputra <adi.masputra@sun.com>
+Linux Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
+Solaris James Carlson <carlson@workingcode.com>
Copyrights:
The primary site for releases of this software is:
- ftp://linuxcare.com.au/pub/ppp/
+ ftp://ftp.samba.org/pub/ppp/
-($Id: README,v 1.23 2000/04/13 11:59:40 paulus Exp $)
+($Id: README,v 1.30 2003/11/27 21:32:03 paulus Exp $)
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