I saw the new PPP daemon off Freshmeat yesterday and downloaded it - tarball version, and RPM if tarball doesn't work. I'm trying to decide if it's worth my while to upgrade. There are some nice new features, on the other hand it looks like I have to do some kernel machinations, and I'm still at the level yet where I twinge at the thought. I'm going back and forth between "This is major useful stuff being added" and "Don't break a stable install, idiot." Advice from those who've logged more Linux hours than I have? Thanks in advance. What's 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 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>. 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 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.
