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.
* 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.
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.
********
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>
+Solaris 2 Paul Mackerras (for want of anybody better :-)
SunOS 4.x Paul Mackerras (for want of anybody better :-)
Digital Unix (OSF/1) Sowmini Varadhan <varadhan@zk3.dec.com>
NetBSD Matthew Green <mrg@eterna.com.au>
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 1.18 1999/07/23 07:07:33 paulus Exp $)
+($Id: README,v 1.19 1999/08/13 01:54:02 paulus Exp $)