Why not make it show connect speed, like minicom does? without any
headaches of getting stupid chat to show it.
On Fri, 14 May 1999, Paul Mackerras wrote:
> ppp-2.3.8 is available now, in the usual place:
>
> ftp://cs.anu.edu.au/pub/software/ppp
>
> Mostly bug fixes and minor pppd improvements this time. There are a
> couple of bug fixes in the kernel PPP driver for Linux. These fixes
> are already in linux-2.2.8 (and 2.2.9). Here's the "what's new"
> section from the README:
>
> What's 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.
>
>
> Paul.
>
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