X-Git-Url: http://git.ozlabs.org/?a=blobdiff_plain;f=pppd%2Fpppd.8;h=a7b4db8494660d4b9aed63d66117e075526f92d0;hb=a3e53f0632f8b502ca070e048f27c523a668a7dc;hp=105c0a10f0903a40e2bdb62b03094b13ece07a4b;hpb=a4efaa63e68e25e712af030a138a272dfe0d2180;p=ppp.git diff --git a/pppd/pppd.8 b/pppd/pppd.8 index 105c0a1..a7b4db8 100644 --- a/pppd/pppd.8 +++ b/pppd/pppd.8 @@ -1,5 +1,5 @@ .\" manual page [] for pppd 2.3 -.\" $Id: pppd.8,v 1.41 1999/07/21 00:24:32 paulus Exp $ +.\" $Id: pppd.8,v 1.43 1999/08/12 04:22:53 paulus Exp $ .\" SH section heading .\" SS subsection heading .\" LP paragraph @@ -443,6 +443,7 @@ already open on stdout. Append log messages to the file \fIfilename\fR (as well as sending the log messages to syslog). The file is opened with the privileges of the user who invoked pppd, in append mode. +.TP .B login Use the system password database for authenticating the peer using PAP, and record the user in the system wtmp file. Note that the peer @@ -454,6 +455,10 @@ Terminate the connection when it has been available for network traffic for \fIn\fR seconds (i.e. \fIn\fR seconds after the first network control protocol comes up). .TP +.B maxfail \fIn +Terminate after \fIn\fR consecutive failed connection attempts. A +value of 0 means no limit. The default value is 10. +.TP .B modem Use the modem control lines. This option is the default. With this option, pppd will wait for the CD (Carrier Detect) signal from the @@ -1151,6 +1156,9 @@ The PPP negotiation failed because serial loopback was detected. .TP .B 18 The init script failed (returned a non-zero exit status). +.TP +.B 19 +We failed to authenticate ourselves to the peer. .SH SCRIPTS Pppd invokes scripts at various stages in its processing which can be used to perform site-specific ancillary processing. These scripts are