[ ppp-2.3.8 is out]
Thought that this might be of interest to the Debian group.
----- Forwarded message from Paul Mackerras <paulus@cs.anu.edu.au> -----
Date: Fri, 14 May 1999 16:27:20 +1000
From: Paul Mackerras <paulus@cs.anu.edu.au>
To: linux-ppp@vger.rutgers.edu
Subject: ppp-2.3.8 is out
Reply-to: Paul.Mackerras@cs.anu.edu.au
ppp-2.3.8 is available now, in the usual place:
ftp://cs.anu.edu.au/pub/software/ppp
Mostly bug fixes and minor pppd improvements this time. There are a
couple of bug fixes in the kernel PPP driver for Linux. These fixes
are already in linux-2.2.8 (and 2.2.9). Here's the "what's new"
section from the README:
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.
Paul.
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