X-Git-Url: http://git.ozlabs.org/?p=ppp.git;a=blobdiff_plain;f=README;h=0ce0fa206658b49f344c07c0f0d800eb917c8c81;hp=eb8aad69ac487e698427423cd198b36c4999e3b4;hb=745f1b59d38e294452a502e4df4149902946f18d;hpb=1acb8dba3cceb6fa727198b4835d74cc3bdb5c07 diff --git a/README b/README index eb8aad6..0ce0fa2 100644 --- a/README +++ b/README @@ -69,9 +69,40 @@ use any IP address. (This only applies where the peer is 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. + +* 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. + +* 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. @@ -423,4 +454,4 @@ The primary site for releases of this software is: ftp://cs.anu.edu.au/pub/software/ppp/ -($Id: README,v 1.17 1999/05/13 00:30:16 paulus Exp $) +($Id: README,v 1.18 1999/07/23 07:07:33 paulus Exp $)