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Date:      Wed, 15 Oct 1997 23:49:45 +0100
From:      Brian Somers <brian@awfulhak.org>
To:        Brian Somers <brian@awfulhak.org>
Cc:        stesin@gu.net, freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org, jkh@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: New PPP? (Re: 8 days until 2.2.5... Administrative notices. 
Message-ID:  <199710152249.XAA18481@awfulhak.demon.co.uk>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 15 Oct 1997 02:21:24 BST." <199710150121.CAA07608@awfulhak.demon.co.uk> 

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Oops, one last thing.  I haven't merged the MSChap changes into ppp 
RELENG_2_2.  It's definitely a new feature rather than a bug fix, but 
it's non-obtrusive given that you have to enable it.

Should I merge this Jordan ?  Would this hurt release ?

> > BTW: how about the most modern PPP stuff (by Brian Somers)
> > present in -current? will it be the part of 2.2.5?
> > 
> > Best regards,
> > Andrew Stesin
> 
> The only things not in RELENG_2_2 are:
> 
> 1.  An MTU negotiation thing that makes ppp NAK the peers MRU if 
>     you've "set mtu" in your config file.  This is somewhat cosmetic 
>     - I may merge it.
> 
> 2.  The LCP layers are not shut down correctly.  This is apparant if 
>     you run ppp -background.  When ppp times out, it exits without 
>     ever actually sending the TerminateReq to the other side.  I'm
>     currently looking at bringing this into 2.2, pending a reply from 
>     tom@tomqnx.com (Tom Torrance) confirming that his somewhat 
>     obscure case is now behaving correctly.  This has been tested 
>     fairly extensively in -current over the past couple of weeks by 
>     me (and hopefully some of the other committers - I followed up 
>     the commit with a plea for testing - no news is good news).
> 
> > nic-hdl: ST73-RIPE
> > 
> > 
> 
> -- 
> Brian <brian@Awfulhak.org>, <brian@FreeBSD.org>, <bri@OpenBSD.org>
>       <http://www.Awfulhak.org>;
> Don't _EVER_ lose your sense of humour....
> 
> 





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