Changed maintainer for Sol 2/SunOS 4.x to Adi Masputra <adi.masputra@sun.com>

[ppp.git] / README

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@@ -86,6 +86,12 @@ What's new in ppp-2.3.9.
   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.
 
@@ -97,6 +103,14 @@ What's new in ppp-2.3.9.
 * 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.
 
 
@@ -403,6 +417,19 @@ not acceptable (put a ! on the front).
 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.
 ********
 
@@ -430,8 +457,8 @@ 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 :-)
+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>
@@ -443,7 +470,9 @@ Ultrix 4.x          Paul Mackerras (for want of anybody better :-)
 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:
@@ -454,4 +483,4 @@ The primary site for releases of this software is:
        ftp://cs.anu.edu.au/pub/software/ppp/
 
 
-($Id: README,v 1.18 1999/07/23 07:07:33 paulus Exp $)
+($Id: README,v 1.20 1999/08/19 19:26:03 masputra Exp $)