I have put a new ppp-2.3.10 release in the usual place,
ftp://cs.anu.edu.au/pub/software/ppp. There is a .tar.gz there, along
with source, PPC and i386 rpms.
The main new feature in this release is that pppd now supports
plugins. I hope this will provide an easy way to customize pppd for
various different requirements. I have added some hooks in pppd
already to allow plugins to take over various functions in pppd, and I
would welcome suggestions for other places to put hooks.
There is one example plugin in the pppd/plugins directory. If anyone
wants to contribute more, that would be great. The one that is there
implements a `minconnect' option, which provides a minimum connect
time before the idle timeout applies.
Here is the what's new section from the readme:
What's new in ppp-2.3.10.
*************************
* Pppd now supports `plugins', which are pieces of code (packaged as
shared libraries) which can be loaded into pppd at runtime and which
can affect its behaviour. The intention is that plugins provide a
way for people to customize the behaviour of pppd for their own
needs without needing to change the base pppd source. I have added
some hooks into pppd (places where pppd will call a function
pointer, if non-zero, to replace some of pppd's code) and I will be
receptive to suggestions about places to add more hooks. Plugins
are supported under Linux and Solaris at present.
* We have a new maintainer for the Solaris port, Adi Masputra of Sun
Microsystems, and he has updated the Solaris port so that it should
work on 64-bit machines under Solaris 7 and later.
* Pppd now has an `allow-ip' option, which takes an argument which is
an IP address (or subnet) which peers are permitted to use without
authenticating themselves. The argument takes the same form as each
element of the allowed IP address list in the secrets files. The
allow-ip option is privileged and may be specified multiple times.
Using the allow-ip option should be cleaner than putting a line like
`"" * "" address' in /etc/ppp/pap-secrets.
* Chat can now substitute environment variables into the script. This
is enabled by the -E flag. (Thanks to Andreas Arens for the patch.)
* If the PAP username and password from the peer contains unprintable
characters, they will be translated to a printable form before
looking in the pap-secrets file. Characters >= 0x80 are translated
to a M- form, and characters from 0 to 0x1f (and 0x7f as well) are
translated to a ^X form. If this change causes you grief, let me
know what would be a better translation. It appears that some peers
send nulls or other control characters in their usernames and
passwords.
* Pppd has new `ktune' and `noktune' options, which enable/disable
it to change kernel settings as appropriate. This is only
implemented under Linux, and requires the /proc filesystem to be
mounted. Under Linux, with the ktune option, pppd will enable IP
forwarding in the kernel if the proxyarp option is used, and will
enable the dynamic IP address kernel option in demand mode if the
local IP address changes.
* Pppd no longer requires a remote address to be specified for demand
dialling. If none is specified, it will use a default value of
10.112.112.112+unit_number. (It will not propose this default to
the peer.)
* The default holdoff is now 0 if no connect script is given.
* The IPV6 code from Tommi Komulainen, which I unfortunately only
partially merged in to ppp-2.3.9, has been fixed and updated.
* The linux compilation glitches should be fixed now.
Paul.
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