I have put ppp-2.3.7 in ftp://cs.anu.edu.au/pub/software/ppp/.
It is available there in 4 forms: a .tar.gz file, a source RPM, and
binary RPMs for Linux/intel and Linux/PPC. Assuming you have either
ppp-2.3.6 installed already and/or you are running a 2.2.x kernel, you
don't need to upgrade the kernel driver unless you want the new
support for synchronous HDLC devices.
There are a lot of improvements and bug fixes in this release. In
particular the problems people were having with signals being blocked
and with not being able to open the serial device in some
circumstances should be gone. Here's the section of the README file
that lists what's new:
What's 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 :-)
Those of you who want to keep up with the bleeding edge can get
read-only anonymous access to the CVS repository - see
http://www.samba.org/cvs.html for details. The package name is "ppp".
Hopefully there won't be any bugs in this release (:-) and I'll be
able to take a break from the ppp development for a little while.
Paul.
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