From 4f8198b298850ae2d2c9052e0867743d6164218e Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Sylvain Rochet Date: Wed, 22 Aug 2012 20:14:45 +0200 Subject: [PATCH] Added ChangeLog entry reporting all the work done in the ppp-new branch. --- CHANGELOG | 65 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 65 insertions(+) diff --git a/CHANGELOG b/CHANGELOG index b3f6890f..969325bc 100644 --- a/CHANGELOG +++ b/CHANGELOG @@ -6,6 +6,71 @@ HISTORY ++ New features: + 2012-08-22: Sylvain Rochet + * New PPP stack for lwIP, developed in ppp-new branch. + Based from pppd 2.4.5, released 2009-11-17, with huge changes to match + code size and memory requirements for embedded devices, including: + - Gluing together the previous low-level PPP code in lwIP to pppd 2.4.5, which + is more or less what pppd sys-* files are, so that we get something working + using the unix port. + - Merged some patchs from lwIP Git repository which add interesting features + or fix bugs. + - Merged some patchs from Debian pppd package which add interesting features + or fix bugs. + - Ported PPP timeout handling to the lwIP timers system + - Disabled all the PPP code using filesystem access, replaced in necessary cases + to configuration variables. + - Disabled all the PPP code forking processes. + - Removed IPX support, lwIP does not support IPX. + - Ported and improved random module from the previous PPP port. + - Removed samba TDB (file-driven database) usage, because it needs a filesystem. + - MS-CHAP required a DES implementation, we added the latest PolarSSL DES + implementation which is under a BSD-ish license. + - Also switched to PolarSSL MD4,MD5,SHA1 implementations, which are meant to be + used in embedded devices with reduced memory footprint. + - Removed PPP configuration file parsing support. + - Added macro definition EAP_SUPPORT to make EAP support optional. + - Added macro definition CHAP_SUPPORT to make CHAP support optional. + - Added macro definition MSCHAP_SUPPORT to make MSCHAP support optional. + - Added macro definition PAP_SUPPORT to make PAP support optional. + - Cleared all Linux syscall calls. + - Disabled demand support using a macro, so that it can be ported later. + - Disabled ECP support using a macro, so that it can be ported later. + - Disabled CCP support using a macro, so that it can be ported later. + - Disabled CBCP support using a macro, so that it can be ported later. + - Disabled LQR support using a macro, so that it can be ported later. + - Print packet debug feature optional, through PRINTPKT_SUPPORT + - Removed POSIX signal usage. + - Fully ported PPPoS code from the previous port. + - Fully ported PPPoE code from the previous port. + - Fully ported VJ compression protocol code from the previous port. + - Removed all malloc()/free() use from PPP, replaced by stack usage or PBUF. + - Disabled PPP server support using a macro, so that it can be ported later. + - Switched all PPP debug to lwIP debug system. + - Created PPP Control Block (PPP PCB), removed PPP unit integer everywhere, + removed all global variables everywhere, did everything necessary for + the PPP stack to support more than one PPP session (pppd only support + one session per process). + - Removed the statically allocated output buffer, now using PBUF. + - Improved structure size of all PPP modules, deep analyze of code to reduce + variables size to the bare minimum. Switched all boolean type (char type in + most architecture) to compiler generated bitfields. + - Added PPP IPv6 support, glued lwIP IPv6 support to PPP. + - Now using a persistent netif interface which can then be used in lwIP + functions requiring a netif. + - Now initializing PPP in lwip_init() function. + - Reworked completely the PPP state machine, so that we don't end up in + anymore in inconsistent state, especially with PPPoE. + - Improved the way we handle PPP reconnection after disconnect, cleaning + everything required so that we start the PPP connection again from a + clean state. + - Added PPP holdoff support, allow the lwIP user to wait a little bit before + reconnecting, prevents connection flood, especially when using PPPoL2TP. + - Added PPPoL2TP LAC support (a.k.a. UDP tunnels), adding a VPN client + feature to lwIP, L2TP being a widely used tunnel protocol. + - Switched all used PPP types to lwIP types (u8t, u16t, u32t, ...) + - Added PPP API "sequential" thread-safe API, based from NETIFAPI. + 2012-03-25: Simon Goldschmidt (idea by Mason) * posix/*: added posix-compatibility include files posix/netdb.h and posix/sys/socket.h which are a simple wrapper to the correct lwIP include files.