Give up waiting for a PAP auth-req from the peer after 30 seconds.

[ppp.git] / pppd / pppd.8

diff --git a/pppd/pppd.8 b/pppd/pppd.8
index 4f4cf66aa14a05d65ef1c07755b56f9758328fae..c210d05d12a4df479d0748e57aa005ea5b6ada5c 100644 (file)
--- a/pppd/pppd.8
+++ b/pppd/pppd.8
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 .\" manual page [] for pppd 2.0
 .\" manual page [] for pppd 2.0

-.\" $Id: pppd.8,v 1.10 1995/05/01 01:43:54 paulus Exp $
+.\" $Id: pppd.8,v 1.12 1995/06/12 12:02:22 paulus Exp $

 .\" SH section heading
 .\" SS subsection heading
 .\" LP paragraph
 .\" SH section heading
 .\" SS subsection heading
 .\" LP paragraph


@@ -36,6 +36,7 @@ NCP for establishing and configuring the Internet Protocol (IP)
 .I <tty_name>
 Communicate over the named device.  The string "/dev/"
 is prepended if necessary.  If no device name is given,
 .I <tty_name>
 Communicate over the named device.  The string "/dev/"
 is prepended if necessary.  If no device name is given,

+or if the name of the controlling terminal is given,

 .I pppd
 will use the controlling terminal, and will not fork to put itself in
 the background.
 .I pppd
 will use the controlling terminal, and will not fork to put itself in
 the background.


@@ -394,6 +395,12 @@ Set the PAP restart interval (retransmission timeout) to <n> seconds
 Set the maximum number of PAP authenticate-request transmissions to
 <n> (default 10).
 .TP
 Set the maximum number of PAP authenticate-request transmissions to
 <n> (default 10).
 .TP

+.B pap-timeout \fI<n>
+Set the maximum time that
+.I pppd
+will wait for the peer to authenticate itself with PAP to
+<n> seconds (0 means no limit).
+.TP

 .B chap-restart \fI<n>
 Set the CHAP restart interval (retransmission timeout for challenges)
 to <n> seconds (default 3).
 .B chap-restart \fI<n>
 Set the CHAP restart interval (retransmission timeout for challenges)
 to <n> seconds (default 3).