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 664e932f722d6462d44ed22afe88d9a5548f79d8..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 1.42 1999/08/04 15:53:13 johnsonm Exp $
+.\" $Id: pppd.8,v 1.43 1999/08/12 04:22:53 paulus Exp $
 .\" SH section heading
 .\" SS subsection heading
 .\" LP paragraph
@@ -455,6 +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
@@ -1152,6 +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