Date: Sun, 25 Oct 1998 17:55:31 +0000 From: Brian Somers <brian@Awfulhak.org> To: Keith Stevenson <k.stevenson@louisville.edu> Cc: Brian Somers <brian@Awfulhak.org>, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Ppp improvements for dynamic IPs Message-ID: <199810251755.RAA01596@woof.lan.awfulhak.org> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sat, 24 Oct 1998 14:47:53 EDT." <19981024144753.A24415@homer.louisville.edu>
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Thanks for the report.
I have no plans to put it into -stable. The stuff in -stable is from
before the ppp rewrite, and we're not supposed to add new features to
the -stable branch.
Anyone that wants the latest ppp can get it from my web site anyway :-)
> I just installed the new code and everything seems to work as advertised. The
> "first-connection" problem is gone and no new bugs appear to have been
> introduced. I tested connecting both with my FreeBSD console and from the
> Windows boxen on the private network behind it.
>
> Thanks for the fix! Any idea when/if it will be committed to Stable?
>
> Regards,
> --Keith Stevenson--
>
> --
> Keith Stevenson
> System Programmer - Data Center Services - University of Louisville
> k.stevenson@louisville.edu
> PGP key fingerprint = 4B 29 A8 95 A8 82 EA A2 29 CE 68 DE FC EE B6 A0
>
> On Thu, Oct 22, 1998 at 01:32:48PM +0100, Brian Somers wrote:
> > Ppp has just been updated with some code that should work around the
> > ``first connection'' problem for people running in -auto -alias mode
> > with dynamic IPs.
> >
> > Previously, the program that caused the dial up would never connect
> > although programs started after the dialup is complete would. Now,
> > everything should ``just work''.
>
--
Brian <brian@Awfulhak.org>, <brian@FreeBSD.org>, <brian@OpenBSD.org>
<http://www.Awfulhak.org>;
Don't _EVER_ lose your sense of humour....
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