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| author | Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> | 1999-03-02 05:27:24 +0000 |
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| committer | Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> | 1999-03-02 05:27:24 +0000 |
| commit | b194902e6d9141e12a22603eac3ed4a7660c8643 (patch) | |
| tree | 13c531e90d47e50a10d1a96d92729299e2f124b4 /README | |
| parent | 49464ac3690f1a89de335d99b64c7e846ca6fcd1 (diff) | |
| download | ppp-b194902e6d9141e12a22603eac3ed4a7660c8643.tar.gz | |
update for 2.3.6 release
Diffstat (limited to 'README')
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1 files changed, 39 insertions, 6 deletions
@@ -67,9 +67,42 @@ use any IP address. (This only applies where the peer is authenticating itself to you, of course.) -What's new in ppp-2.3.5. +What's new in ppp-2.3.6. ************************ +* The device name is now a privileged option, meaning a non-privileged + user cannot specify the device name on the command line or in their + .ppprc file. + +* The default behaviour of pppd is now to let a peer which has not + authenticated itself (e.g. your ISP) use any IP address to which the + system does not already have a route. (This is currently only + supported under Linux, Solaris and Digital Unix; on the other + systems, the peer must now authenticate itself unless the noauth + option is used.) + +* Added new option `usepeerdns', thanks to Nick Walker + <nickwalker@email.com>. If the peer supplies DNS addresses, these + will be written to /etc/ppp/resolv.conf. The ip-up script can then + be used to add these addresses to /etc/resolv.conf if desired (see + the ip-up.local.add and ip-down.local.add files in the scripts + directory). + +* The Solaris ppp driver should now work correctly on SMP systems. + +* Minor corrections so that the code can compile under Solaris 7, + and under Linux with glibc-2.1. + +* The Linux kernel driver has been restructured for improved + performance. + +* Pppd now won't start the ip-down script until the ip-up script has + finished. + + +What was new in ppp-2.3.5. +************************** + * Minor corrections to the Digital UNIX and NetBSD ports. * A workaround to avoid tickling a bug in the `se' serial port driver @@ -255,13 +288,13 @@ questions like this that I get. If you find bugs in this package, please report them to the maintainer for the port for the operating system you are using: -Digital Unix (OSF/1) Farrell Woods <ftw@zk3.dec.com> -Linux Al Longyear <longyear@pobox.com> -NetBSD Matthew Green <mrg@eterna.com.au +Digital Unix (OSF/1) Sowmini Varadhan <varadhan@zk3.dec.com> +Linux Paul Mackerras <Paul.Mackerras@cs.anu.edu.au> +NetBSD Matthew Green <mrg@eterna.com.au> FreeBSD Peter Wemm <peter@haywire.DIALix.COM> NeXTStep Steve Perkins <perkins@cps.msu.edu> Solaris 2 Paul Mackerras <Paul.Mackerras@cs.anu.edu.au> -SunOS 4.x Paul Mackerras <Paul.Mackerras@cs.anu.edu.au> +SunOS 4.x Paul Mackerras (for want of anybody better :-) System V Release 4 Matthias Apitz <Matthias.Apitz@SOFTCON.de> Ultrix 4.x Paul Mackerras (for want of anybody better :-) @@ -280,4 +313,4 @@ The primary site for releases of this software is: ftp://cs.anu.edu.au/pub/software/ppp/ -($Id: README,v 1.13 1998/05/04 06:14:31 paulus Exp $) +($Id: README,v 1.14 1999/03/02 05:25:29 paulus Exp $) |