dial-on-demand, packet filtering, idle timeouts, etc). The IPX support
is pretty much there but more work needs to be done in sys-bsd.c for
the interface ioctls (Linux has a very different way of configuring IPX
interfaces).
Along the way some things have temporarily been lost due to very messy
conflicts. I will recover them shortly when I can think clearer.
The main one is the local:remote address override in pap-secrets and
chap-secrets. Some other home-grown features (dns1,dns2) have been
implemented differently. Microsoft's chap client auth hacks have been
implemented. There are bound to be more rough edges... The changes for
connect-max-retries doesn't fit well with the dial-on-demand code.
mixed up versions. Also, these were imported onto the 1.1.2 branch
(since the last one was imported there, sigh) and that causes cvsup in
checkout mode some problems (there isn't any 1.1.1 branch at all!!).
pppd now creates /var/run/ttyXn.if file containing the interface name;
check that a 'login' user is not listed in /etc/ppp/ppp.disabled;
check that a 'login' user's shell is listed in /etc/ppp/ppp.shells;
make sure that passwordless 'login' logins are recorded in wtmp and
utmp.
and chap-secrets files. This allows specific users
to have pre-allocated IP numbers while others get
assigned dynamically.
Submitted by: David Nugent <davidn@unique.usn.blaze.net.au>
This will make a number of things easier in the future, as well as (finally!)
avoiding the Id-smashing problem which has plagued developers for so long.
Boy, I'm glad we're not using sup anymore. This update would have been
insane otherwise.
bomb out. Unfortunately, FreeBSD's sio driver and certain internal
modems don't get along very well, which can cause the serial port to
wedge until it is closed and reopened.
Add new variable, connect-max-attempts, default = 1 (to mimic previous
behavior). If > 1, will try up to "n" times to dial remote site before
aborting.
rather out of date.. it even suggested that it was ppp-2.1.1 still :-)
I've selected some bits from the README files and pre-pended it so that
at least reading it tells you _something_ about the recent history.
or "defaultroute"... That's forgivable I guess, but the silly thing
didn't have any way to _enable_ the options either! :-(
This now enables them by default.
Obtained from: ppp-2.3a0
