eborn laat het volgende weten: "Er is een nieuwe versie uitgebracht van de PPTP Client voor Linux. Dit programma wordt onder andere gebruikt om verbinding te maken met het ADSL-modem van Adsl van KPN. Het changelog laat de volgende lijst met veranderingen achter:"
PPTP Client is a Linux, FreeBSD and NetBSD client for the proprietary Microsoft Point-to-Point Tunneling Protocol, PPTP. Allows connection to a PPTP based Virtual Private Network (VPN) as used by employers and some cable and ADSL internet service providers.Release 1.2.0:
- rewrite INSTALL.
- add man page to install target.
- fix response to dropped packets.
- fix man page, address must be before options.
- adopt man page contributed by Thomas Quinot.
- close stderr to prevent holding open ssh sessions.
- minor hint added in case of EIO on read() of pty.
- support synchronous HDLC ppp encoding. Synchronous mode results in an important improvement of the CPU efficiency.
- handle out-of-order packets arriving on the GRE socket by buffering.
- bind GRE socket early to prevent ICMP Unreachable response by client.