- Update from version 2.4.9 to 2.5.0
This includes breaking changes for third-party plugins but as far as I can see IPFire
is not using any third party plugins
- Update of rootfile
- Update of patches and sed commands
- pcap-int.h and if_pppol2tp.h files have not been in source file since at least 2014
- Some of the patches required updates as additional lines needing to be patched are
now present. nThis was related to the O_CLOEXEC & SOCK_CLOEXEC related patches
- connect-errors file location is now defined by a configure command --with-logfile-dir
- install-etcppp is no longer provided. However the install command in this version still
has the same files available in /etc/ppp as previously. There is a new file,
openssl.cnf, which I have commented out. If it is required in future it can always be
uncommented in future releases.
- Build went without any problems with the updated patches.
- I cannot test this as I don't use ppp, however the original bug reporter has agreed to
test this out when it is released into Testing unless anyone else is capable of testing
it.
- Changelog
What's new in ppp-2.5.0.
The 2.5.0 release is a major release of pppd which contains breaking
changes for third-party plugins, a complete revamp of the build-system
and that allows for flexibility of configuring features as needed.
In Summary:
* Support for PEAP authentication by Eivind Næss and Rustam Kovhaev
* Support for loading PKCS12 certificate envelopes
* Adoption of GNU Autoconf / Automake build environment, by Eivind Næss
and others.
* Support for pkgconfig tool has been added by Eivind Næss.
* Bunch of fixes and cleanup to PPPoE and IPv6 support by Pali Rohár.
* Major revision to PPPD's Plugin API by Eivind Næss.
- Defines in which describes what features was included in pppd
- Functions now prefixed with explicit ppp_* to indicate that
pppd functions being called.
- Header files were renamed to better align with their features,
and now use proper include guards
- A pppdconf.h file is supplied to allow third-party modules to use
the same feature defines pppd was compiled with.
- No extern declarations of internal variable names of pppd,
continued use of these extern variables are considered
unstable.
* Lots of internal fixes and cleanups for Radius and PPPoE by Jaco Kroon
* Dropped IPX support, as Linux has dropped support in version 5.15
for this protocol.
* Many more fixes and cleanups.
* Pppd is no longer installed setuid-root.
* New pppd options:
- ipv6cp-noremote, ipv6cp-nosend, ipv6cp-use-remotenumber,
ipv6-up-script, ipv6-down-script
- -v, show-options
- usepeerwins, ipcp-no-address, ipcp-no-addresses, nosendip
* On Linux, any baud rate can be set on a serial port provided the
kernel serial driver supports that.
Note that if you have built and installed previous versions of this
package and you want to continue having configuration and TDB files in
/etc/ppp, you will need to use the --sysconfdir option to ./configure.
For a list of the changes made during the 2.4 series releases of this
package, see the Changes-2.4 file.
Compression methods.
This package supports two packet compression methods: Deflate and
BSD-Compress. Other compression methods which are in common use
include Predictor, LZS, and MPPC. These methods are not supported for
two reasons - they are patent-encumbered, and they cause some packets
to expand slightly, which pppd doesn't currently allow for.
BSD-Compress and Deflate (which uses the same algorithm as gzip) don't
ever expand packets.
Fixes: bug#13164 Signed-off-by: Adolf Belka <adolf.belka@ipfire.org> Reviewed-by: Michael Tremer <michael.tremer@ipfire.org> Signed-off-by: Michael Tremer <michael.tremer@ipfire.org>
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