authenticating itself to you, of course.)
-What's new in ppp-2.4.3.
+What's new in ppp-2.4.4.
************************
+* Pppd will now run /etc/ppp/ip-pre-up, if it exists, after creating
+ the ppp interface and configuring its IP addresses but before
+ bringing it up. This can be used, for example, for adding firewall
+ rules for the interface.
+
+* Lots of bugs fixed, particularly in the area of demand-dialled and
+ persistent connections.
+
+* The rp-pppoe plugin now accepts any interface name (that isn't an
+ existing pppd option name) without putting "nic-" on the front of
+ it, not just eth*, nas*, tap* and br*.
+
+
+What was new in ppp-2.4.3.
+**************************
+
* The configure script now accepts --prefix and --sysconfdir options.
These default to /usr/local and /etc. If you want pppd put in
/usr/sbin as before, use ./configure --prefix=/usr.
that used in the Unix "compress" command. It was apparently covered
by U.S. patents 4,814,746 (owned by IBM) and 4,558,302 (owned by
Unisys), and corresponding patents in various other countries (but not
-Australia). I believe the Unisys patent expired in the US on 20 June
-2003, and that the IBM patent was older.
+Australia). Apparently the Unisys patent expired in the US on 20 June
+2003, but the IBM patent is still pending.
If these patents are of concern in your situation, you can build the
package without including BSD-Compress. To do this, edit
ftp://ftp.samba.org/pub/ppp/
-($Id: README,v 1.34 2004/11/13 12:00:38 paulus Exp $)
+($Id: README,v 1.37 2006/05/29 23:51:29 paulus Exp $)