authenticating itself to you, of course.)
-What's new in ppp-2.3.8.
+What's 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.
********
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 1.17 1999/05/13 00:30:16 paulus Exp $)
+($Id: README,v 1.19 1999/08/13 01:54:02 paulus Exp $)
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