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diff --git a/mdk-stage1/ppp/Changes-2.3 b/mdk-stage1/ppp/Changes-2.3 deleted file mode 100644 index f5c954b4b..000000000 --- a/mdk-stage1/ppp/Changes-2.3 +++ /dev/null @@ -1,441 +0,0 @@ -What was new in ppp-2.3.11. -*************************** - -* Support for Solaris 8 has been added, including support for - replumbing and IPV6. - -* The Solaris `snoop' utility should now work on ppp interfaces. - -* New hooks have been added - pap_logout_hook, ip_up_hook, and - ip_down_hook. - -* A new `passprompt' plugin is included, thanks to Alan Curry, which - makes it possible for pppd to call an external program to get the - PAP password to send to the peer. - -* The error messages for the situation where authentication is - required because the system has a default route have been improved. - -* There is a new connect_delay option which specifies how long pppd - should pause after the connect script finishes. Previously this - delay was fixed at 1 second. (This delay terminates as soon as pppd - sees a valid PPP frame from the peer.) - -* The `hide-password' option is now the default, and there is a new - `show-password' option to enable the printing of password strings in - the debug output. - -* A fairly complete list of the names of PPP protocols has been added - so that when pppd rejects a frame because its protocol is not - supported, it can print the name of the unsupported protocol. - -* Synchronous serial lines are supported under Linux 2.3.x. - -* The bug where pppd would not recognize a modem hangup under Linux - 2.3.x kernels has been fixed. - - -What was new in ppp-2.3.10. -*************************** - -* Pppd now supports `plugins', which are pieces of code (packaged as - shared libraries) which can be loaded into pppd at runtime and which - can affect its behaviour. The intention is that plugins provide a - way for people to customize the behaviour of pppd for their own - needs without needing to change the base pppd source. I have added - some hooks into pppd (places where pppd will call a function - pointer, if non-zero, to replace some of pppd's code) and I will be - receptive to suggestions about places to add more hooks. Plugins - are supported under Linux and Solaris at present. - -* We have a new maintainer for the Solaris port, Adi Masputra of Sun - Microsystems, and he has updated the Solaris port so that it should - work on 64-bit machines under Solaris 7 and later. - -* Pppd now has an `allow-ip' option, which takes an argument which is - an IP address (or subnet) which peers are permitted to use without - authenticating themselves. The argument takes the same form as each - element of the allowed IP address list in the secrets files. The - allow-ip option is privileged and may be specified multiple times. - Using the allow-ip option should be cleaner than putting a line like - `"" * "" address' in /etc/ppp/pap-secrets. - -* Chat can now substitute environment variables into the script. This - is enabled by the -E flag. (Thanks to Andreas Arens for the patch.) - -* If the PAP username and password from the peer contains unprintable - characters, they will be translated to a printable form before - looking in the pap-secrets file. Characters >= 0x80 are translated - to a M- form, and characters from 0 to 0x1f (and 0x7f as well) are - translated to a ^X form. If this change causes you grief, let me - know what would be a better translation. It appears that some peers - send nulls or other control characters in their usernames and - passwords. - -* Pppd has new `ktune' and `noktune' options, which enable/disable - it to change kernel settings as appropriate. This is only - implemented under Linux, and requires the /proc filesystem to be - mounted. Under Linux, with the ktune option, pppd will enable IP - forwarding in the kernel if the proxyarp option is used, and will - enable the dynamic IP address kernel option in demand mode if the - local IP address changes. - -* Pppd no longer requires a remote address to be specified for demand - dialling. If none is specified, it will use a default value of - 10.112.112.112+unit_number. (It will not propose this default to - the peer.) - -* The default holdoff is now 0 if no connect script is given. - -* The IPV6 code from Tommi Komulainen, which I unfortunately only - partially merged in to ppp-2.3.9, has been fixed and updated. - -* The linux compilation glitches should be fixed now. - - -What was new in ppp-2.3.9. -************************** - -* Support for the new generic PPP layer under development for the - Linux kernel. - -* You can now place extra options to apply to specific users at the - end of the line with their password in the pap-secrets or - chap-secrets file, separated from the IP address(es) with a "--" - separator. These options are parsed after the peer is authenticated - but before network protocol (IPCP, IPXCP) or CCP negotiation - commences. - -* Pppd will apply the holdoff period if the link was terminated by the - peer. It doesn't apply it if the link was terminated because the - local pppd thought it was idle. - -* Synchronous support for Solaris has been added, thanks to John - Morrison, and for FreeBSD, thanks to Paul Fulghum. - -* IPV6 support has been merged in, from Tommi Komulainen. At the - moment it only supports Linux and it is not tested by me. - -* The `nodefaultip' option can be used in demand mode to say that pppd - should not suggest its local IP address to the peer. - -* The `init' option has been added; this causes pppd to run a script - to initialize the serial device (e.g. by sending an init string to - the modem). Unlike the connect option, this can be used in a - dial-in situation. (Thanks to Tobias Ringstrom.) - -* There is a new `logfile' option to send log messages to a file as - well as syslog. - -* There is a new, privileged `linkname' option which sets a logical - name for the link. Pppd will create a /var/run/ppp-<linkname>.pid - file containing its process ID. - -* There is a new `maxfail' option which specifies how many consecutive - failed connection attempts are permitted before pppd will exit. The - default value is 10, and 0 means infinity. :-) - -* Sundry bugs fixed. - - -What was 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: - - - `pty script' will run `script' with its standard input and output - connected to the master side of the pty. For example: - pppd pty 'ssh -t server.my.net pppd' - is a basic command for setting up a PPP link (tunnel) over ssh. - (In practice you may need to specify other options such as IP - addresses, etc.) - - - `notty' tells pppd to communicate over its standard input and - output, which do not have to be a terminal device. - - - `record filename' tells pppd to record all of the characters sent - and received over the serial device to a file called `filename'. - The data is recorded in a tagged format with timestamps, which can - be printed in a readable form with the pppdump program, which is - included in this distribution. - -* Pppd now logs the connect time and number of bytes sent and received - (at the level of the serial device) when the connection is - terminated. - -* If you use the updetach or nodetach option, pppd will print its - messages to standard output as well as logging them with syslog - (provided of course pppd isn't using its standard input or output as - its serial device). - -* There is a new `privgroup groupname' option (a privileged option). - If the user running pppd is in group `groupname', s/he can use - privileged options without restriction. - -* There is a new `receive-all' option, which causes pppd to accept all - control characters, even the ones that the peer should be escaping - (i.e. the receive asyncmap is 0). This is useful with some buggy - peers. - -* The default asyncmap is now 0. - -* There is a new `sync' option, currently only implemented under - Linux, which allows pppd to run on synchronous HDLC devices. - -* If a value for the device name or for the connect, disconnect, - welcome or pty option is given in a privileged option file - (i.e. /etc/ppp/options or a file loaded with the `call' option), it - cannot be overridden by a non-privileged user. - -* Many bugs have been fixed, notably: - - signals are not blocked unnecessarily, as they were in 2.3.6. - - the usepeerdns option should work now. - - the SPEED environment variable for scripts is set correctly. - - the /etc/ppp/auth-down script is not run until auth-up completes. - - the device is opened as root if it is the device on standard - input. - - pppd doesn't die with the ioctl(PPPIOCSASYNCMAP) error under linux - if a hangup occurs at the wrong time. - -* Some error messages have been changed to be clearer (I hope :-) - - -What was new in ppp-2.3.6. -************************** - -* Pppd now opens the tty device as the user (rather than as root) if - the device name was given by the user, i.e. on the command line or - in the ~/.ppprc file. If the device name was given in - /etc/ppp/options or in a file loaded with the `call' option, the - device is opened as root. - -* 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 -on Sun PCI Ultra machines running Solaris. - -* Fixed a bug in the negotiation of the Microsoft WINS server address -option. - -* Fixed a bug in the Linux port where it would fail for kernel -versions above 2.1.99. - - -What was new in ppp-2.3.4. -************************** - -* The NeXT port has been updated, thanks to Steve Perkins. - -* ppp-2.3.4 compiles and works under Solaris 2.6, using either gcc or -cc. - -* With the Solaris, SVR4 and SunOS ports, you can control the choice -of C compiler, C compiler options, and installation directories by -editing the svr4/Makedefs or sunos4/Makedefs file. - -* Until now, we have been using the number 24 to identify Deflate -compression in the CCP negotiations, which was the number in the draft -RFC describing Deflate. The number actually assigned to Deflate is -26. The code has been changed to use 26, but to allow the use of 24 -for now for backwards compatibility. (This can be disabled with the -`nodeflatedraft' option to pppd.) - -* Fixed some bugs in the linux driver and deflate compressor which -were causing compression problems, including corrupting long -incompressible packets sometimes. - -* Fixes to the PAM and shadow password support in pppd, from Al -Longyear and others. - -* Pppd now sets some environment variables for scripts it invokes -(ip-up/down, auth-ip/down), giving information about the connection. -The variables it sets are PEERNAME, IPLOCAL, IPREMOTE, UID, DEVICE, -SPEED, and IFNAME. - -* Pppd now has an `updetach' option, which will cause it to detach -from its controlling terminal once the link has come up (i.e. once it -is available for IP traffic). - - -What was new in ppp-2.3.3. -************************** - -* Fixed compilation problems under SunOS. - -* Fixed a bug introduced into chat in 2.3.2, and compilation problems -introduced into the MS-CHAP implementation in 2.3.2. - -* The linux kernel driver has been updated for recent 2.1-series -kernel changes, and it now will ask kerneld to load compression -modules when required, if the kernel is configured to support kerneld. - -* Pppd should now compile correctly under linux on systems with glibc. - - -What was new in ppp-2.3.2. -************************** - -* In 2.3.1, I made a change which was intended to make pppd able to -detect loss of CD during or immediately after the connection script -runs. Unfortunately, this had the side-effect that the connection -script wouldn't work at all on some systems. This change has been -reversed. - -* Fix compilation problems in the Linux kernel driver. - - -What was new in ppp-2.3.1. -************************** - -* Enhancements to chat, thanks to Francis Demierre. Chat can now -accept comments in the chat script file, and has new SAY, HANGUP, -CLR_ABORT and CLR_REPORT keywords. - -* Fixed a bug which causes 2.3.0 to crash Solaris systems. - -* Bug-fixes and restructuring of the Linux kernel driver. - -* The holdoff behaviour of pppd has been changed slightly: now, if -the link comes up for IP (or other network protocol) traffic, we -consider that the link has been successfully established, and don't -enforce the holdoff period after the link goes down. - -* Pppd should now correctly wait for CD (carrier detect) from the -modem, even when the serial port initially had CLOCAL set, and it -should also detect loss of CD during or immediately after the -connection script runs. - -* Under linux, pppd will work with older 2.2.0* version kernel -drivers, although demand-dialling is not supported with them. - -* Minor bugfixes for pppd. - - -What was 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. Look for the demand -option description in the pppd man page. Demand-dialling is not -supported under Ultrix or NeXTStep. - -* 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. 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 shouldn't be a problem for -links running at 100kbit/s or less. - -* 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. - -* Pppstats has been reworked to clean up the output format somewhat. -It also has a new -d option which displays data rate in kbyte/s for -those columns which would normally display bytes. - -* Pppd options beginning with - or + have been renamed, e.g. -ip -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 -allowed IP address(es) field in the secrets files can now specify -subnets (with a notation like 123.45.67.89/24) and addresses which are -not acceptable (put a ! on the front). - -* Numerous bugs have been fixed (no doubt some have been introduced :-) -Thanks to those who reported bugs in ppp-2.2. |