maxfail option, exit code for when when we fail to auth

[ppp.git] / pppd / pppd.8

diff --git a/pppd/pppd.8 b/pppd/pppd.8
index 105c0a10f0903a40e2bdb62b03094b13ece07a4b..a7b4db8494660d4b9aed63d66117e075526f92d0 100644 (file)
--- 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