ANNOUNCE: X-ISP v2.3p3: X11 visual interface to pppd/chat
Dimitrios P. Bouras
dbouras at hol.gr
Wed Oct 29 16:14:15 EET 1997
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Greetings to all,
This is to announce the third patch level release to version 2.3,
(version 2.3p3), of xisp, an X11 visual interface to pppd/chat, i.e.
an X11 dialup networking tool. xisp is also a small ISP database
manager and a dialup costs and connection logging tool. The LSM
entry is included below. The distribution is in
ftp://sunsite.unc.edu/incoming/Linux and
ftp://argeas.argos.hol.gr/incoming
right now, but it should appear in the listed locations shortly.
To compile this latest version you need version 0.86 of xforms.
If you want to check out the features/capabilities of xisp on the
web, please visit http://users.hol.gr/~dbouras.
What's new in version 2.3:
- Phone call cost calculation and connection logging
- New special variables "%U" and "%P" replace "%s" in script
lines
- Enhanced security for ip-up/ip-down via the new xispid utility
(adapted from GNU id(1))
- Support for .xisp-up/.xisp-down user scripts (like
ip-up/ip-down)
- Remote control via process signals SIGUSR1 and SIGUSR2
- PPP interface numbers other than ppp0 (partial solution)
- Call-back support for authenticated login methods (PAP,
PAP-S, CHAP-S)
- Added intelligence with regards to pppd and Linux kernel
versions
- Numerous bug-fixes
What's fixed in patch-level3:
- Updated PTT information for the Slovene Telecom. Thanks go
to Gasper Fele <gasper.fele at guest.arnes.si> for his corrections.
- Verbose error message for the case when xispdial fails to
start after the default waiting period of 30 seconds.
- Minor user-interface bug-fixes for the "Dialing and Login" and
"Communication Options" forms.
- Fixed bug in network.c resulting from typo in macros; it affected
the animation under Linux kernel versions 2.1.x and SunOS 4.1.x.
- Fixed bug in xispUD() which runs .xisp-up/.xisp-down user scripts
which prevented output showing up on browser. Also modified the
argument list passed to .xisp-up/.xisp-down to be identical to the
one passed to ip-up/ip-down by pppd (not only ipparam as up until
now). Many thanks go to I.Ioannou <roryt at hol.gr> for his feedback
and his help in debugging this problem.
- Inserted corrections for the Italian and Spanish PTT's. Thanks go
to Tillmann Steinbrecher <tst at gmx.de>, the pppcosts author, for
providing the corrections.
- Created two new PTT entries for Croatia, one for the Croatian
Academic and Research Network (CARNet) and one for their national
PTT (HPT). Thanks go to Toni Bilic <tbilic at efos.hr> for providing
the billing information.
- Corrected compile-time bug in SunOS-4.1.x support with regards to
function bzero(). Thanks go to Tom Herzog <tom_herzog at MENTORG.COM>
for pointing it out.
- Enhanced ip-up/ip-down and .xisp-up/.xisp-down distributed with
xisp by making all script (including command executed from within
the script) stdout/stderr output appear automatically on the xisp
browser window.
- Fixed bug with script-file generation when plain-text password
contained the '%' character. Many thanks go to Fabrice Bellet
<Fabrice.Bellet at imag.fr> and Mark J. Hewitt
<mjh at elsabio.demon.co.uk> for reporting this problem.
- Fixed xisprccv bug when reading bit-mapped flag variables which
were changed from "unsigned short" to "unsigned int", going from
version 2.2 to version 2.3. Problem manifested itself under SunOS.
- Updated the France Telecom PTT entry. Thanks go to Tillmann
Steinbrecher <tst at gmx.de>, the pppcosts author, for providing
the updated information.
- Major re-write of the France Telecom PTT entry. Fixed bug with
total cost value not being updated properly, and not scaled up by
100.0 when saving in log file per-minute charges, and not being
scaled down when displaying statistics. Added extra field in PTT
struct to accommodate varying time-lengths for minimum charge in
per-minute charging schemes. Great many thanks go to Fabrice Bellet
<Fabrice.Bellet at imag.fr> for his extensive patches and his help
in debugging the new code.
- Added online indicator printout to window title.
- Minor GUI appearance corrections: made string and numeric input
field height consistent throughout all forms.
For more detailed information please refer to the documentation
files in the distribution. Send bug reports/enhancements/suggestions
to dbouras at hol.gr.
With greetings from Athens,
Dimitri
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Title: X-ISP, an X11 visual interface to pppd/chat.
Version: October 29 1997
Entered-date: Wed Oct 29 15:10:25 EET 1997
Description: X-ISP is an X11 and XForms based visual interface
to pppd and chat, implementing a dialup networking
tool. Additionally, it is also a small ISP data
base manager and a dialup costs and connection
logging tool. Currently it only supports PPP type
connections. To build it you need XForms-0.86 or
later, and if you don't have it already, libXpm
version 3.4f or later. Information on where to get
XForms is included in the distribution.
Keywords: PPP, X11, XForms
Author: dbouras at hol.gr (Dimitrios P. Bouras)
Maintained-by: dbouras at hol.gr (Dimitrios P. Bouras)
Primary-site: sunsite.unc.edu /pub/Linux/system/network/serial
183k xisp-2.3p3.tar.gz
Alternate-site: argeas.argos.hol.gr /pub/unix/linux
183k xisp-2.3p3.tar.gz
Original-site:
Platform: Linux, SunOS 4.1.x
Copying-policy: GNU GPL
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