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README: Improve wording of new feature descriptions (#590)
Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@ozlabs.org>
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are no longer functional, and just cause an error message to
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* There is now a dhcpv6relay plugin, which provides a DHCPv6
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relay for the local system inside pppd.
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* There is now a dhcpv6relay plugin, which can be used to provide
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IPv6 RAs to the remote side and relay the subsequent incoming
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DHCPv6 requests to a DHCPv6 server. Note: This is to delegate
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IPv6 to the remote side, not to configure IPv6 locally; in other
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words, this is generally only useful for service providers.
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For configuring IPv6 at an endpoint, projects like dhcpcd
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and/or radvd may be useful.
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* VRF (Virtual Routing and Forwarding) support has been added
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to pppd on Linux. There is now a 'vrf' option which tells
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the main routing table.
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* The pppoe (PPP over ethernet) plugin now supports maximum
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packet sizes greater than 1492 bytes if configured to do so
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and the server agrees.
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packet sizes greater than 1492 bytes if configured to do so,
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a larger size is agreed upon during the PPPoE negotiation,
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and the peer agrees.
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* CBCP (Callback control protocol) support can still be selected
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at configuration time, but now a warning message will be
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printed, warning that CBCP support will be removed in a
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future version. If you use CBCP in pppd, let the maintainer
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know.
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know, for example by adding to the issue at:
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https://github.com/ppp-project/ppp/issues/530
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* Various other bug fixes and minor enhancements.
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