> * The Point-to-Point Protocol (PPP) counters are now always reset when
> a port is initialized. Previously, incorrectly set counters sometimes
> caused the second link of a PPP multilink connection to fail.
>
> * The PortMaster 3 no longer retains a remote router's Multichassis PPP
> (MCPPP) master entry after the router disconnects. Previously, under
> certain conditions, the master entry remained after disconnection and
> prevented the PortMaster from routing the packets of this remote router
> when it dialed in again.
>
> * Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP) access to the serial table
> for PortMaster user information now works properly. Earlier versions of
> this release reported "No Response."
As has already been discussed, the release notes erroneously reported
that the modem code is the same as that in 3.8.2c2. Instead, it is
the same modem code that was introduced in 3.9b22, and was also in
3.9b24. (Lucent --- you really should update your online release notes
to accurately reflect this.)
Also, the following item is new under "Limitations". It presumably applies
to at least 3.9b24 as well, and possibly earlier versions, depending on just
how the various OSPF changes have affected this behaviour.
> * To advertise your address pools allocated for static users as
> internal OSPF routes, you must add them to the OSPF area range as full
> class C addresses. If these addresses are instead added as subnets of a
> class C address, they are incorrectly advertised as OSPF type 2
> external (E2) routes.
>
> An address pool on a PortMaster 3 is most commonly made up of 48
> contiguous addresses, the first of which is a network address. For
> example, suppose you configure an address pool using subnets
> 192.168.110.16/28 and 192.168.110.32/27, with 192.168.110.16 as the
> first address.
>
> If you add the address pool to the OSPF area range as
> *192.168.110.0/24, the address pool is correctly advertised as "ospf."
> However, if you add the address pool to the OSPF area range as
> *192.168.110.16/28 and *192.168.110.32/27, it is advertised as
> "ospf/E2."
I did not notice any new features that were not previously available in
earlier 3.9b* releases. I would assume that the documentation of the
new features might have been slightly updated since they were first
announced in 3.9b8, but I didn't examine things on that level.
Hopefully others will find the above information useful. Of course,
it is possible I missed something when comparing the various release
notes. If so, you have my humblest apologies!
Michael Bryan
pmu@ursine.com
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