In this first beta release, the ports for SunOS, Solaris, NetBSD and
Digital Unix (OSF/1) are believed to be working correctly. The Linux
-port mostly works, but still has some known bugs. The remaining ports
-haven't been tested extensively. The NeXTStep port is not included
-here since it hasn't been updated from 2.2 yet. For information on
-its current status, see http://www.thoughtport.com:8080/PPP/.
+port mostly works, but still has some known bugs (demand dialling
+doesn't work correctly). The remaining ports haven't been tested
+extensively. The NeXTStep port is not included here since it hasn't
+been updated from 2.2 yet. For information on its current status, see
+http://www.thoughtport.com:8080/PPP/.
Introduction.
The Point-to-Point Protocol (PPP) provides a standard way to establish
a network connection over a serial link. At present, this package
supports IP and the protocols layered above IP, such as TCP and UDP.
-The Linux port of this package also supports IPX.
+The Linux port of this package also has support for IPX.
This software consists of two parts:
System V Release 4 README.svr4
Ultrix 4.x README.ultrix
+(Unfortunately, AIX 4 is no longer supported, since I don't have a
+maintainer for the AIX 4 port. If you want to volunteer, contact me.)
+
In each case you start by running the ./configure script. This works
out which operating system you are using and creates symbolic links to
the appropriate makefiles. You then run `make' to compile the
be recompiled and the system rebooted. See the README.* files for
details.
-(Unfortunately, AIX 4 is no longer supported, since I don't have a
-maintainer for the AIX 4 port. If you want to volunteer, contact me.)
-
What's new in ppp-2.3.
**********************
* Demand-dialling. Pppd now has a mode where it will establish the
network interface immediately when it starts, but not actually bring
-the link up until it sees some data to be sent.
+the link up until it sees some data to be sent. Look for the demand
+option description in the pppd man page.
* Idle timeout. Pppd will optionally terminate the link if no data
packets are sent or received within a certain time interval.
* Pppd now runs the /etc/ppp/auth-up script, if it exists, when the
peer successfully authenticates itself, and /etc/ppp/auth-down when
-the connection is subsequently terminated.
+the connection is subsequently terminated. This can be useful for
+accounting purposes.
* A new packet compression scheme, Deflate, has been implemented.
This uses the same compression method as `gzip'. This method is free
of patent or copyright restrictions, and it achieves better
compression than BSD-Compress. It does consume more CPU cycles for
-compression than BSD-Compress, but this won't be a problem for links
-running at 100kbit/s or less.
+compression than BSD-Compress, but this shouldn't be a problem for
+links running at 100kbit/s or less.
-* There is now no code in this distribution which is covered by Brad
+* There is no code in this distribution which is covered by Brad
Clements' restrictive copyright notice. The STREAMS modules for SunOS
and OSF/1 have been rewritten, based on the Solaris 2 modules, which
were written from scratch without any Clements code.
became noip, +chap became require-chap, etc. The old options are
still accepted for compatibility but may be removed in future.
+* Pppd now has some options (such as the new `noauth' option) which
+can only be specified if it is being run by root, or in an
+"privileged" options file: /etc/ppp/options or an options file in the
+/etc/ppp/peers directory. There is a new "call" option to read
+options from a file in /etc/ppp/peers, making it possible for non-root
+users to make unauthenticated connections, but only to certain trusted
+peers. My intention is to make the `auth' option the default in a
+future release.
+
* Several minor new features have been added to pppd, including the
maxconnect and welcome options. Pppd will now terminate the
connection when there are no network control protocols running. The
ftp://cs.anu.edu.au/pub/software/ppp/
-($Id: README,v 1.6 1996/07/03 06:47:29 paulus Exp $)
+($Id: README,v 1.7 1996/08/28 06:30:32 paulus Exp $)
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