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From: brian@awfulhak.demon.co.uk (Brian Somers)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: ppp
Date: 10 May 1997 05:13:06 GMT
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The following modifications have been done to ppp in
the 2.2 branch:
o Increase maximum chat args from 20 to 40,
stop scribbling when the limit is hit.
o Allow mixed case commands.
o Allow HISADDR, MYADDR, ALL and INTERFACE
in mixed case.
o Add reconnect command.
o Add redial next timer (for next number redial).
o Change logfile name to ppp.tunX.log.
o Discard HDLC frames with less than two bytes.
o Make background mode exit on loss of carrier.
o Initialise lqrsendcnt for each connection.
o Initialise VarLocalAuth for each connection.
o Exit on failure to open the log file.
o Ignore SIGPIPE.
o Select() on the correct number of fds.
o Only compress TCP packets.
o Update documentation.
o Bring in various minor fixes from -current.
o Create a ttyXX.if and tunX.pid file.
o Check many more return values.
o Do some additional bounds checking.
I'd be greatful if the people that have been having
obscure problems with ppp (user-level) would take this
opportunity to download the current (2.2 branch) version
and see if anything has gotten any better.
A copy of the source can be found at
http://www.freebsd.org/~brian/ppp-2.2-970509.tar.gz
A compiled binary can be found at
http://www.freebsd.org/~brian/ppp-2.2-970509.bin.gz
Don't forget to make the binary setuid root:
# gunzip ppp-2.2-970509.bin.gz
# cp ppp-2.2-970509.bin /usr/sbin/ppp
# chown root.bin /usr/sbin/ppp
# chmod 4555 /usr/sbin/ppp
The only known problem is that setting the MTU still
doesn't work properly.
TIA.
--
Brian <brian@awfulhak.org>, <brian@freebsd.org>
<http://www.awfulhak.org>
Don't _EVER_ lose your sense of humour....