authenticating itself to you, of course.)
-What's new in ppp-2.3.7.
+What's 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.
+
+* Pppd has two new options: fdlog <n> will send log messages to file
+ descriptor <n> instead of standard output, and nofdlog will stop log
+ messages from being sent to any file descriptor (they will still be
+ sent to syslog). Pppd now will not send log messages to a file
+ descriptor if the serial port is open on that file descriptor.
+
+* Pppd sets an environment variable called PPPLOGNAME for scripts that
+ it runs, indicating the login name of the user who invoked pppd.
+
+* Pppd sets environment variables CONNECT_TIME, BYTES_SENT and
+ BYTES_RCVD for the ip-down and auth-down scripts indicating the
+ statistics for the connection just terminated. (CONNECT_TIME is in
+ seconds.)
+
+* If the user has the serial device open on standard input and
+ specifies a symbolic link to the serial device on the command line,
+ pppd will detect this and behave correctly (i.e. not detach from its
+ controlling terminal). Furthermore, if the serial port is open for
+ reading and writing on standard input, pppd will assume that it is
+ locked by its invoker and not lock it itself.
+
+* Chat now has a feature where if a string to be sent begins with an
+ at sign (@), the rest of the string is taken as the name of a file
+ (regular file or named pipe), and the actual string to send is taken
+ from that file.
+
+* Support for FreeBSD-2.2.8 and 3.0 has been added, thanks to Paul
+ Fulghum.
+
+* The Tru64 (aka Digital Unix aka OSF/1) port has been updated.
+
+* The system panics on Solaris SMP systems related to PPP connections
+ being established and terminated should no longer occur.
+
+* Fixed quite a few bugs.
+
+
+What was new in ppp-2.3.7.
+**************************
+
* Pppd can now automatically allocate itself a pseudo-tty to use as
the serial device. This has made three new options possible:
ftp://cs.anu.edu.au/pub/software/ppp/
-($Id: README,v 1.16 1999/03/31 06:07:55 paulus Exp $)
+($Id: README,v 1.17 1999/05/13 00:30:16 paulus Exp $)
-PPP for Linux Version 2.3.7
+PPP for Linux Version 2.3.8
============= based on
- ppp-2.3.7
- March 1999
+ ppp-2.3.8
+ May 1999
-Michael Callahan callahan@maths.ox.ac.uk
-Al Longyear longyear@netcom.com
Paul Mackerras Paul.Mackerras@cs.anu.edu.au
-Nick Walker nickwalker@email.com
+Al Longyear longyear@netcom.com
+Michael Callahan callahan@maths.ox.ac.uk
Contents:
INTRODUCTION
performance and to make a cleaner separation between the
network-interface and async TTY parts of the ppp driver.
-Nick Walker added the code to query the peer for DNS server addresses.
+Nick Walker added the code to pppd to query the peer for DNS server
+addresses.
INSTALLATION
This version of PPP has been tested on various Linux kernel versions
-(most recently 2.0.36 and 2.2.1). It will not work on kernels before
+(most recently 2.0.36 and 2.2.8). It will not work on kernels before
2.0.0. If you have an earlier kernel, please upgrade to the latest 2.0
or 2.2 kernel.
2. Update the kernel sources.
-If you are using a 2.2.x kernel (or a recent 2.1.x kernel), you do not
-need to do this step unless you need the synchronous HDLC support. If
-your kernel is already configured for PPP, then you only need to do
-steps 5 and 6. Otherwise, continue at step 3.
+The 2.2.8 kernel contains the same PPP kernel driver as is in this
+release. In fact the driver in the kernel sources is slightly
+different from the one in this package as it doesn't include the stuff
+which enables the driver in this package to compile in either the 2.0
+or 2.2 kernel environment, but the two are functionally equivalent.
+If you are using a 2.2.8 kernel and your kernel is already configured
+for PPP, then you only need to do steps 5 and 6. Otherwise, continue
+at step 3.
-If you are using a 2.0.x kernel, or you need the synchronous HDLC
-support, you need to update the kernel ppp driver to the version in
-this package. You will need a copy of the kernel source tree to do
-this. Issue the command:
+If you are using a kernel earlier than 2.2.8, you can either use the
+driver in this package or upgrade your kernel to 2.2.8. If you choose
+to use the driver in this package, you will need a copy of the kernel
+source tree to compile the driver. Issue the command:
make kernel
from the top level directory. This will install the various include
-files and source files into the proper directory for the linux
-kernel. If you don't have the kernel installed in the /usr/src/kernel
-directory then it will not work. Instead it will print a message to
-the effect that you need to specify the kernel location on the
-kinstall command.
+files and source files into the proper directories in the linux kernel
+source tree. If you don't have the kernel installed in the default
+/usr/src/kernel directory then it will not work. Instead it will print
+a message to the effect that you need to specify the kernel location
+on the kinstall command.
The actual message will say:
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