X-Git-Url: https://git.ozlabs.org/?a=blobdiff_plain;ds=sidebyside;f=pppd%2Fpppd.8;h=60932c2f6c81faeeb34306a4dbb6ada52e3ddd01;hb=HEAD;hp=7be3e8074fe2502a9b7efc23bf5fcc0e535298c6;hpb=1480d439ca62d17d7a8a4704194860148dc27689;p=ppp.git diff --git a/pppd/pppd.8 b/pppd/pppd.8 index 7be3e80..3765041 100644 --- a/pppd/pppd.8 +++ b/pppd/pppd.8 @@ -1,12 +1,11 @@ -.\" manual page [] for pppd 2.4 -.\" $Id: pppd.8,v 1.90 2008/03/26 12:09:40 paulus Exp $ +.\" manual page [] for pppd 2.5.x .\" SH section heading .\" SS subsection heading .\" LP paragraph .\" IP indented paragraph .\" TP hanging label .\" -.\" Copyright (c) 1993-2003 Paul Mackerras +.\" Copyright (c) 1993-2003 Paul Mackerras .\" .\" Permission to use, copy, modify, and distribute this software for any .\" purpose with or without fee is hereby granted, provided that the above @@ -760,6 +759,13 @@ will be used as the name to send to the peer when authenticating the local system to the peer. (Note that pppd does not append the domain name to \fIname\fR.) .TP +.B netmask \fImask +Set the IPV4 network mask on the PPP interface to the given +\fImask\fR, which can be given in dotted-quad notation or as a single +hexadecimal number preceded by 0x. This option is not normally +needed because the PPP interface is a point-to-point connection, but +in some specialized circumstances it can be useful. +.TP .B noaccomp Disable Address/Control compression in both directions (send and receive). @@ -2046,7 +2052,7 @@ of a fatal decompression error. (Fatal decompression errors generally indicate a bug in one or other implementation.) .SH AUTHORS -Paul Mackerras (paulus@samba.org), based on earlier work by +Paul Mackerras (paulus@ozlabs.org), based on earlier work by Drew Perkins, Brad Clements, Karl Fox, @@ -2121,7 +2127,7 @@ are met: at Carnegie Mellon University (http://www.cmu.edu/computing/)." .br "This product includes software developed by Paul Mackerras - ". + ". .br "This product includes software developed by Pedro Roque Marques ".