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.TH PPPD 8
.SH NAME
pppd \- Point-to-Point Protocol Daemon
.SH SYNOPSIS
.B pppd
[
.I options
]
.SH DESCRIPTION
.LP
PPP is the protocol used for establishing internet links over dial-up
modems, DSL connections, and many other types of point-to-point
links.  The \fIpppd\fR daemon works together with the kernel PPP
driver to establish and maintain a PPP link with another system
(called the \fIpeer\fR) and to negotiate Internet Protocol (IP)
addresses for each end of the link.  Pppd can also authenticate the
peer and/or supply authentication information to the peer.  PPP can be
used with other network protocols besides IP, but such use is becoming
increasingly rare.
.SH FREQUENTLY USED OPTIONS
.TP
.I ttyname
Use the serial port called \fIttyname\fR to communicate with the
peer.  If \fIttyname\fR does not begin with a slash (/),
the string "/dev/" is prepended to \fIttyname\fR to form the
name of the device to open.  If no device name is given, or if the
name of the terminal
connected to the standard input is given, pppd will use that terminal,
and will not fork to put itself in the background.  A value for this
option from a privileged source cannot be overridden by a
non-privileged user.
.TP
.I speed
An option that is a decimal number is taken as the desired baud rate
for the serial device.  On systems such as
Linux, 4.4BSD and NetBSD, any speed can be specified.  Other systems
(e.g. SunOS) only support the commonly-used baud rates.
.TP
.B asyncmap \fImap
This option sets the Async-Control-Character-Map (ACCM) for this end
of the link.  The ACCM is a set of 32 bits, one for each of the
ASCII control characters with values from 0 to 31, where a 1 bit
indicates that the corresponding control character should not be used
in PPP packets sent to this system.  The map is encoded as a
hexadecimal number (without a leading 0x) where the least significant
bit (00000001) represents character 0 and the most significant bit
(80000000) represents character 31.
Pppd will ask the peer to send these characters as a 2-byte
escape sequence.
If multiple \fIasyncmap\fR options are given, the values are ORed
together.  If no \fIasyncmap\fR option is given, the default is zero,
so pppd will ask the peer not to escape any control characters.
To escape transmitted characters, use the \fIescape\fR option.
.TP
.B auth
Require the peer to authenticate itself before allowing network
packets to be sent or received.  This option is the default if the
system has a default route.  If neither this option nor the
\fInoauth\fR option is specified, pppd will only allow the peer to use
IP addresses to which the system does not already have a route.
.TP
.B call \fIname
Read additional options from the file /etc/ppp/peers/\fIname\fR.  This
file may contain privileged options, such as \fInoauth\fR, even if pppd
is not being run by root.  The \fIname\fR string may not begin with /
or include .. as a pathname component.  The format of the options file
is described below.
.TP
.B connect \fIscript
Usually there is something which needs to be done to prepare the link
before the PPP protocol can be started; for instance, with a dial-up
modem, commands need to be sent to the modem to dial the appropriate
phone number.  This option specifies an command for pppd to execute
(by passing it to a shell) before attempting to start PPP negotiation.
The chat (8) program is often useful here, as it provides a way to
send arbitrary strings to a modem and respond to received characters.
A value
for this option from a privileged source cannot be overridden by a
non-privileged user.
.TP
.B crtscts
Specifies that pppd should set the serial port to use hardware flow
control using the RTS and CTS signals in the RS-232 interface.
If neither the \fIcrtscts\fR, the
\fInocrtscts\fR, the \fIcdtrcts\fR nor the \fInocdtrcts\fR option
is given, the hardware flow control setting for the serial port is
left unchanged.
Some serial ports (such as Macintosh serial ports) lack a true
RTS output. Such serial ports use this mode to implement
unidirectional flow control. The serial port will
suspend transmission when requested by the modem (via CTS)
but will be unable to request the modem to stop sending to the
computer. This mode retains the ability to use DTR as
a modem control line.
.TP
.B defaultroute
Add a default route to the system routing tables, using the peer as
the gateway, when IPCP negotiation is successfully completed.
This entry is removed when the PPP connection is broken.  This option
is privileged if the \fInodefaultroute\fR option has been specified.
.TP
.B defaultroute-metric
Define the metric of the \fIdefaultroute\fR and only add it if there
is no other default route with the same metric.  With the default
value of -1, the route is only added if there is no default route at
all.
.TP
.B replacedefaultroute
This option is a flag to the defaultroute option. If defaultroute is
set and this flag is also set, pppd replaces an existing default route
with the new default route.  This option is privileged.
.TP
.B disconnect \fIscript
Execute the command specified by \fIscript\fR, by passing it to a
shell, after
pppd has terminated the link.  This command could, for example, issue
commands to the modem to cause it to hang up if hardware modem control
signals were not available.  The disconnect script is not run if the
modem has already hung up.  A value for this option from a privileged
source cannot be overridden by a non-privileged user.
.TP
.B escape \fIxx,yy,...
Specifies that certain characters should be escaped on transmission
(regardless of whether the peer requests them to be escaped with its
async control character map).  The characters to be escaped are
specified as a list of hex numbers separated by commas.  Note that
almost any character can be specified for the \fIescape\fR option,
unlike the \fIasyncmap\fR option which only allows control characters
to be specified.  The characters which may not be escaped are those
with hex values 0x20 - 0x3f or 0x5e.
.TP
.B file \fIname
Read options from file \fIname\fR (the format is described below).
The file must be readable by the user who has invoked pppd.
.TP
.B init \fIscript
Execute the command specified by \fIscript\fR, by passing it to a shell, to
initialize the serial line.  This script would typically use the
chat(8) program to configure the modem to enable auto answer.  A value
for this option from a privileged source cannot be overridden by a
non-privileged user.
.TP
.B lock
Specifies that pppd should create a UUCP-style lock file for the
serial device to ensure exclusive access to the device.  By default,
pppd will not create a lock file.
.TP
.B mru \fIn
Set the MRU [Maximum Receive Unit] value to \fIn\fR. Pppd
will ask the peer to send packets of no more than \fIn\fR bytes.
The value of \fIn\fR must be between 128 and 16384; the default is 1500.
A value of
296 works well on very slow links (40 bytes for TCP/IP header + 256
bytes of data).
Note that for the IPv6 protocol, the MRU must be at least 1280.
.TP
.B mtu \fIn
Set the MTU [Maximum Transmit Unit] value to \fIn\fR.  Unless the
peer requests a smaller value via MRU negotiation, pppd will
request that the kernel networking code send data packets of no more
than \fIn\fR bytes through the PPP network interface.  Note that for 
the IPv6 protocol, the MTU must be at least 1280.
.TP
.B passive
Enables the "passive" option in the LCP.  With this option, pppd will
attempt to initiate a connection; if no reply is received from the
peer, pppd will then just wait passively for a valid LCP packet from
the peer, instead of exiting, as it would without this option.
.SH OPTIONS
.TP
.I <local_IP_address>\fB:\fI<remote_IP_address>
Set the local and/or remote interface IP addresses.  Either one may be
omitted.  The IP addresses can be specified with a host name or in
decimal dot notation (e.g. 150.234.56.78).  The default local
address is the (first) IP address of the system (unless the
\fInoipdefault\fR
option is given).  The remote address will be obtained from the peer
if not specified in any option.  Thus, in simple cases, this option is
not required.  If a local and/or remote IP address is specified with
this option, pppd
will not accept a different value from the peer in the IPCP
negotiation, unless the \fIipcp\-accept\-local\fR and/or
\fIipcp\-accept\-remote\fR options are given, respectively.
.TP
.B +ipv6
Enable the IPv6CP and IPv6 protocols.
.TP
.B ipv6 \fI<local_interface_identifier>\fR,\fI<remote_interface_identifier>
Set the local and/or remote 64-bit interface identifier. Either one may be
omitted. The identifier must be specified in standard ASCII notation of
IPv6 addresses (e.g. ::dead:beef). If the
\fIipv6cp\-use\-ipaddr\fR
option is given, the local identifier is the local IPv4 address and the
remote identifier is the remote IPv4 address (see above).
If the \fIipv6cp-use-remotenumber\fR option is given, the remote identifier
is set to the value from \fIremotenumber\fR option.
On systems which supports a unique persistent id, such as EUI\-48 derived
from the Ethernet MAC address, \fIipv6cp\-use\-persistent\fR option can be
used to set local identifier.  Otherwise both local and remote identifiers
are randomized.
.TP
.B active\-filter \fIfilter\-expression
Specifies a packet filter to be applied to data packets to determine
which packets are to be regarded as link activity, and therefore reset
the idle timer, or cause the link to be brought up in demand-dialling
mode.  This option is useful in conjunction with the
\fBidle\fR option if there are packets being sent or received
regularly over the link (for example, routing information packets)
which would otherwise prevent the link from ever appearing to be idle.
The \fIfilter\-expression\fR syntax is as described for tcpdump(1),
except that qualifiers which are inappropriate for a PPP link, such as
\fBether\fR and \fBarp\fR, are not permitted.  Generally the filter
expression should be enclosed in single-quotes to prevent whitespace
in the expression from being interpreted by the shell. This option
is currently only available under Linux, and requires that the kernel
was configured to include PPP filtering support (CONFIG_PPP_FILTER).
Note that it
is possible to apply different constraints to incoming and outgoing
packets using the \fBinbound\fR and \fBoutbound\fR qualifiers.
.TP
.B allow\-ip \fIaddress(es)
Allow peers to use the given IP address or subnet without
authenticating themselves.  The parameter is parsed as for each
element of the list of allowed IP addresses in the secrets files (see
the AUTHENTICATION section below).
.TP
.B allow\-number \fInumber
Allow peers to connect from the given telephone number.  A trailing
`*' character will match all numbers beginning with the leading part.
.TP
.B bsdcomp \fInr,nt
Request that the peer compress packets that it sends, using the
BSD-Compress scheme, with a maximum code size of \fInr\fR bits, and
agree to compress packets sent to the peer with a maximum code size of
\fInt\fR bits.  If \fInt\fR is not specified, it defaults to the value
given for \fInr\fR.  Values in the range 9 to 15 may be used for
\fInr\fR and \fInt\fR; larger values give better compression but
consume more kernel memory for compression dictionaries.
Alternatively, a value of 0 for \fInr\fR or \fInt\fR disables
compression in the corresponding direction.  Use \fInobsdcomp\fR or
\fIbsdcomp 0\fR to disable BSD-Compress compression entirely.
.TP
.B ca \fIca-file
(EAP-TLS, or PEAP) Use the file \fIca-file\fR as the X.509 Certificate Authority
(CA) file (in PEM format), needed for setting up an EAP-TLS connection.
This option is used on the client-side in conjunction with the \fBcert\fR
and \fBkey\fR options.  Either \fIca\fR, or \fIcapath\fR options are required
for PEAP. EAP-TLS may also use the entry in eaptls-client or eaptls-server
for a CA certificate associated with a particular peer.
.TP
.B capath \fIpath
(EAP-TLS, or PEAP) Specify a location that contains public CA certificates.
Either \fIca\fR, or \fIcapath\fR options are required for PEAP.
.TP
.B cdtrcts
Use a non-standard hardware flow control (i.e. DTR/CTS) to control
the flow of data on the serial port.  If neither the \fIcrtscts\fR,
the \fInocrtscts\fR, the \fIcdtrcts\fR nor the \fInocdtrcts\fR
option is given, the hardware flow control setting for the serial
port is left unchanged.
Some serial ports (such as Macintosh serial ports) lack a true
RTS output. Such serial ports use this mode to implement true
bi-directional flow control. The sacrifice is that this flow
control mode does not permit using DTR as a modem control line.
.TP
.B cert \fIcertfile
(EAP-TLS) Use the file \fIcertfile\fR as the X.509 certificate (in PEM
format), needed for setting up an EAP-TLS connection. This option is
used on the client-side in conjunction with the \fBca\fR and 
\fBkey\fR options.
.TP
.B chap\-interval \fIn
If this option is given, pppd will rechallenge the peer every \fIn\fR
seconds.
.TP
.B chap\-max\-challenge \fIn
Set the maximum number of CHAP challenge transmissions to \fIn\fR
(default 10).
.TP
.B chap\-restart \fIn
Set the CHAP restart interval (retransmission timeout for challenges)
to \fIn\fR seconds (default 3).
.TP
.B chap-timeout \fIn
Set timeout for CHAP authentication by peer to \fIn\fR seconds (default 60).
.TP
.B chapms\-strip\-domain
Some Windows 9x/ME clients might be transmitting the MS domain before the
username in the provided client name. This option enables stripping the domain
from the client name on the server side before matching it against the secret
file.
.TP
.B child\-timeout \fIn
When exiting, wait for up to \fIn\fR seconds for any child processes
(such as the command specified with the \fBpty\fR command) to exit
before exiting.  At the end of the timeout, pppd will send a SIGTERM
signal to any remaining child processes and exit.  A value of 0 means
no timeout, that is, pppd will wait until all child processes have
exited.
.TP
.B connect\-delay \fIn
Wait for up to \fIn\fR milliseconds after the connect script finishes for
a valid PPP packet from the peer.  At the end of this time, or when a
valid PPP packet is received from the peer, pppd will commence
negotiation by sending its first LCP packet.  The default value is
1000 (1 second).  This wait period only applies if the \fBconnect\fR
or \fBpty\fR option is used.
.TP
.B crl \fIfilename
(EAP-TLS, or PEAP) Use the file \fIfilename\fR as the Certificate Revocation List
to check for the validity of the peer's certificate. This option is not
mandatory for setting up a TLS connection. Also see the \fBcrl-dir\fR
option.
.TP
.B crl-dir \fIdirectory
(EAP-TLS, or PEAP) Use the directory \fIdirectory\fR to scan for CRL files in
has format ($hash.r0) to check for the validity of the peer's certificate.
This option is not mandatory for setting up a TLS connection.
Also see the \fBcrl\fR option.
.TP
.B debug
Enables connection debugging facilities.
If this option is given, pppd will log the contents of all
control packets sent or received in a readable form.  The packets are
logged through syslog with facility \fIdaemon\fR and level
\fIdebug\fR.  This information can be directed to a file by setting up
/etc/syslog.conf appropriately (see syslog.conf(5)).
.TP
.B default\-asyncmap
Disable asyncmap negotiation, forcing all control characters to be
escaped for both the transmit and the receive direction.
.TP
.B default\-mru
Disable MRU [Maximum Receive Unit] negotiation.  With this option,
pppd will use the default MRU value of 1500 bytes for both the
transmit and receive direction.
.TP
.B defaultroute6
Add a default IPv6 route to the system routing tables, using the peer as
the gateway, when IPv6CP negotiation is successfully completed.
This entry is removed when the PPP connection is broken.  This option
is privileged if the \fInodefaultroute6\fR option has been specified.
\fBWARNING: Do not enable this option by default\fR.  IPv6 routing tables
are managed by kernel (as apposite to IPv4) and IPv6 default route is
configured by kernel automatically too based on ICMPv6 Router Advertisement
packets.  This option may conflict with kernel IPv6 route setup and should
be used only for broken IPv6 networks.
.TP
.B deflate \fInr,nt
Request that the peer compress packets that it sends, using the
Deflate scheme, with a maximum window size of \fI2**nr\fR bytes, and
agree to compress packets sent to the peer with a maximum window size
of \fI2**nt\fR bytes.  If \fInt\fR is not specified, it defaults to
the value given for \fInr\fR.  Values in the range 9 to 15 may be used
for \fInr\fR and \fInt\fR; larger values give better compression but
consume more kernel memory for compression dictionaries.
Alternatively, a value of 0 for \fInr\fR or \fInt\fR disables
compression in the corresponding direction.  Use \fInodeflate\fR or
\fIdeflate 0\fR to disable Deflate compression entirely.  (Note: pppd
requests Deflate compression in preference to BSD-Compress if the peer
can do either.)
.TP
.B demand
Initiate the link only on demand, i.e. when data traffic is present.
With this option, the remote IP address may be specified by the user
on the command line or in an options file, or if not, pppd will use
an arbitrary address in the 10.x.x.x range.  Pppd will initially
configure the interface and enable it for IP traffic without
connecting to the peer.  When traffic is available, pppd will
connect to the peer and perform negotiation, authentication, etc.
When this is completed, pppd will commence passing data packets
(i.e., IP packets) across the link.

The \fIdemand\fR option implies the \fIpersist\fR option.  If this
behaviour is not desired, use the \fInopersist\fR option after the
\fIdemand\fR option.  The \fIidle\fR and \fIholdoff\fR
options are also useful in conjunction with the \fIdemand\fR option.
.TP
.B domain \fId
Append the domain name \fId\fR to the local host name for authentication
purposes.  For example, if gethostname() returns the name porsche, but
the fully qualified domain name is porsche.Quotron.COM, you could
specify \fIdomain Quotron.COM\fR.  Pppd would then use the name
\fIporsche.Quotron.COM\fR for looking up secrets in the secrets file,
and as the default name to send to the peer when authenticating itself
to the peer.  This option is privileged.
.TP
.B dryrun
With the \fBdryrun\fR option, pppd will print out all the option
values which have been set and then exit, after parsing the command
line and options files and checking the option values, but before
initiating the link.  The option values are logged at level info, and
also printed to standard output unless the device on standard output
is the device that pppd would be using to communicate with the peer.
.TP
.B dump
With the \fBdump\fR option, pppd will print out all the option values
which have been set.  This option is like the \fBdryrun\fR option
except that pppd proceeds as normal rather than exiting.
.TP
.B enable-session
Enables session accounting via PAM or wtwp/wtmpx, as appropriate.
When PAM is enabled, the PAM "account" and "session" module stacks
determine behavior, and are enabled for all PPP authentication
protocols.  When PAM is disabled, wtmp/wtmpx entries are recorded
regardless of whether the peer name identifies a valid user on the
local system, making peers visible in the last(1) log.  This feature
is automatically enabled when the pppd \fBlogin\fR option is used.
Session accounting is disabled by default.
.TP
.B endpoint \fI<epdisc>
Sets the endpoint discriminator sent by the local machine to the peer
during multilink negotiation to \fI<epdisc>\fR.  The default is to use
the MAC address of the first ethernet interface on the system, if any,
otherwise the IPv4 address corresponding to the hostname, if any,
provided it is not in the multicast or locally-assigned IP address
ranges, or the localhost address.  The endpoint discriminator can be
the string \fBnull\fR or of the form \fItype\fR:\fIvalue\fR, where
type is a decimal number or one of the strings \fBlocal\fR, \fBIP\fR,
\fBMAC\fR, \fBmagic\fR, or \fBphone\fR.  The value is an IP address in
dotted-decimal notation for the \fBIP\fR type, or a string of bytes in
hexadecimal, separated by periods or colons for the other types.  For
the MAC type, the value may also be the name of an ethernet or similar
network interface.  This option is currently only available under
Linux.
.TP
.B eap\-interval \fIn
If this option is given and pppd authenticates the peer with EAP
(i.e., is the server), pppd will restart EAP authentication every
\fIn\fR seconds.  For EAP SRP\-SHA1, see also the \fBsrp\-interval\fR
option, which enables lightweight rechallenge.
.TP
.B eap\-max\-rreq \fIn
Set the maximum number of EAP Requests to which pppd will respond (as
a client) without hearing EAP Success or Failure.  (Default is 20.)
.TP
.B eap\-max\-sreq \fIn
Set the maximum number of EAP Requests that pppd will issue (as a
server) while attempting authentication.  (Default is 10.)
.TP
.B eap\-restart \fIn
Set the retransmit timeout for EAP Requests when acting as a server
(authenticator).  (Default is 3 seconds.)
.TP
.B eap\-timeout \fIn
Set the maximum time to wait for the peer to send an EAP Request when
acting as a client (authenticatee).  (Default is 20 seconds.)
.TP
.B hide\-password
When logging the contents of PAP packets, this option causes pppd to
exclude the password string from the log.  This is the default.
.TP
.B holdoff \fIn
Specifies how many seconds to wait before re-initiating the link after
it terminates.  This option only has any effect if the \fIpersist\fR
or \fIdemand\fR option is used.  The holdoff period is not applied if
the link was terminated because it was idle.
.TP
.B idle \fIn
Specifies that pppd should disconnect if the link is idle for \fIn\fR
seconds.  The link is idle when no data packets (i.e. IP packets) are
being sent or received.  Note: it is not advisable to use this option
with the \fIpersist\fR option without the \fIdemand\fR option.
If the \fBactive\-filter\fR
option is given, data packets which are rejected by the specified
activity filter also count as the link being idle.
.TP
.B ipcp\-accept\-local
With this option, pppd will accept the peer's idea of our local IP
address, even if the local IP address was specified in an option.
.TP
.B ipcp\-accept\-remote
With this option, pppd will accept the peer's idea of its (remote) IP
address, even if the remote IP address was specified in an option.
.TP
.B ipcp\-max\-configure \fIn
Set the maximum number of IPCP configure-request transmissions to
\fIn\fR (default 10).
.TP
.B ipcp\-max\-failure \fIn
Set the maximum number of IPCP configure-NAKs returned before starting
to send configure-Rejects instead to \fIn\fR (default 10).
.TP
.B ipcp\-max\-terminate \fIn
Set the maximum number of IPCP terminate-request transmissions to
\fIn\fR (default 3).
.TP
.B ipcp\-no\-address
Disable negotiation of addresses via IP-Address IPCP option.
.TP
.B ipcp\-no\-addresses
Disable negotiation of addresses via old-style deprecated IP-Addresses
IPCP option. pppd by default try to use new-style IP-Address IPCP option.
If new-style is not supported by peer or is disabled by \fBipcp\-no\-address\fR
option then pppd fallbacks to old-style deprecated IP-Addresses IPCP option.
When both new-style and old-style are disabled by both \fBipcp\-no\-address\fR
and \fBipcp\-no\-addresses\fR options then negotiation of IP addresses
is completely disabled.
.TP
.B ipcp\-restart \fIn
Set the IPCP restart interval (retransmission timeout) to \fIn\fR
seconds (default 3).
.TP
.B ipparam \fIstring
Provides an extra parameter most of the notification scripts, most notably
ip\-up, ip\-pre\-up, ip\-down, ipv6\-up, ipv6\-down, auth\-up and auth\-down
scripts.  If this
option is given, the \fIstring\fR supplied is given as the 6th
parameter to those scripts.
.TP
.B ipv6cp\-accept\-local
With this option, pppd will accept the peer's idea of our local IPv6
interface identifier, even if the local IPv6 interface identifier
was specified in an option.
.TP
.B ipv6cp\-accept\-remote
With this option, pppd will accept the peer's idea of its (remote)
IPv6 interface identifier, even if the remote IPv6 interface
identifier was specified in an option.
.TP
.B ipv6cp\-noremote
Allow pppd to operate without having an IPv6 link local address for the peer.
This option is only available under Linux.  Normally, pppd will request the
peer's IPv6 interface identifier (used for composing IPv6 link local address),
and if the peer does not supply it, pppd will generate one for the peer.
With this option, if the peer does not supply its IPv6 interface identifier,
pppd will not ask the peer for it, and will not set the destination IPv6
link local address of the ppp interface.  In this situation, the ppp interface
can be used for routing by creating device routes, but the peer itself cannot
be addressed directly for IPv6 traffic until the peer starts announcing ICMPv6
Router Advertisement or ICMPv6 Neighbor Advertisement packets.  Note that IPv6
router must announce ICMPv6 Router Advertisement packets.
.TP
.B ipv6cp\-nosendip
Don't send our local IPv6 interface identifier to peer during IPv6 interface
identifier negotiation.
.TP
.B ipv6cp\-max\-configure \fIn
Set the maximum number of IPv6CP configure-request transmissions to
\fIn\fR (default 10).
.TP
.B ipv6cp\-max\-failure \fIn
Set the maximum number of IPv6CP configure-NAKs returned before starting
to send configure-Rejects instead to \fIn\fR (default 10).
.TP
.B ipv6cp\-max\-terminate \fIn
Set the maximum number of IPv6CP terminate-request transmissions to
\fIn\fR (default 3).
.TP
.B ipv6cp\-restart \fIn
Set the IPv6CP restart interval (retransmission timeout) to \fIn\fR
seconds (default 3).
.TP
.B kdebug \fIn
Enable debugging code in the kernel-level PPP driver.  The argument
values depend on the specific kernel driver, but in general a value of
1 will enable general kernel debug messages.  (Note that these
messages are usually only useful for debugging the kernel driver
itself.)  For the Linux 2.2.x kernel driver, the value is a sum of
bits: 1 to
enable general debug messages, 2 to request that the contents of
received packets be printed, and 4 to request that the contents of
transmitted packets be printed.  On most systems, messages printed by
the kernel are logged by syslog(1) to a file as directed in the
/etc/syslog.conf configuration file.
.TP
.B key \fIkeyfile
(EAP-TLS) Use the file \fIkeyfile\fR as the private key file (in PEM
format), needed for setting up an EAP-TLS connection. This option is
used on the client-side in conjunction with the \fBca\fR and 
\fBcert\fR options.
.TP
.B ktune
Enables pppd to alter kernel settings as appropriate.  Under Linux,
pppd will enable IP forwarding (i.e. set /proc/sys/net/ipv4/ip_forward
to 1) if the \fIproxyarp\fR option is used, and will enable the
dynamic IP address option (i.e. set /proc/sys/net/ipv4/ip_dynaddr to
1) in demand mode if the local address changes.
.TP
.B lcp\-echo\-adaptive
If this option is used with the \fIlcp\-echo\-failure\fR option then
pppd will send LCP echo\-request frames only if no traffic was received
from the peer since the last echo\-request was sent.
.TP
.B lcp\-echo\-failure \fIn
If this option is given, pppd will presume the peer to be dead
if \fIn\fR LCP echo\-requests are sent without receiving a valid LCP
echo\-reply.  If this happens, pppd will terminate the
connection.  Use of this option requires a non-zero value for the
\fIlcp\-echo\-interval\fR parameter.  This option can be used to enable
pppd to terminate after the physical connection has been broken
(e.g., the modem has hung up) in situations where no hardware modem
control lines are available.
.TP
.B lcp\-echo\-interval \fIn
If this option is given, pppd will send an LCP echo\-request frame to
the peer every \fIn\fR seconds.  Normally the peer should respond to
the echo\-request by sending an echo\-reply.  This option can be used
with the \fIlcp\-echo\-failure\fR option to detect that the peer is no
longer connected.
.TP
.B lcp\-max\-configure \fIn
Set the maximum number of LCP configure-request transmissions to
\fIn\fR (default 10).
.TP
.B lcp\-max\-failure \fIn
Set the maximum number of LCP configure-NAKs returned before starting
to send configure-Rejects instead to \fIn\fR (default 10).
.TP
.B lcp\-max\-terminate \fIn
Set the maximum number of LCP terminate-request transmissions to
\fIn\fR (default 3).
.TP
.B lcp\-restart \fIn
Set the LCP restart interval (retransmission timeout) to \fIn\fR
seconds (default 3).
.TP
.B lcp\-rtt\-file \fIfilename
Sets the file where the round-trip time (RTT) of LCP echo-request frames
will be logged.
.TP
.B linkname \fIname\fR
Sets the logical name of the link to \fIname\fR.  Pppd will create a
file named \fBppp\-\fIname\fB.pid\fR in /var/run (or /etc/ppp on some
systems) containing its process ID.  This can be useful in determining
which instance of pppd is responsible for the link to a given peer
system.  This is a privileged option.
.TP
.B local
Don't use the modem control lines.  With this option, pppd will ignore
the state of the CD (Carrier Detect) signal from the modem and will
not change the state of the DTR (Data Terminal Ready) signal.  This is
the opposite of the \fBmodem\fR option.
.TP
.B logfd \fIn
Send log messages to file descriptor \fIn\fR.  Pppd will send log
messages to at most one file or file descriptor (as well as sending
the log messages to syslog), so this option and the \fBlogfile\fR
option are mutually exclusive.  The default is for pppd to send log
messages to stdout (file descriptor 1), unless the serial port is
already open on stdout.
.TP
.B logfile \fIfilename
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
must have an entry in the /etc/ppp/pap\-secrets file as well as the
system password database to be allowed access.  See also the
\fBenable\-session\fR option.
.TP
.B master_detach
If multilink is enabled and this pppd process is the multilink bundle
master, and the link controlled by this pppd process terminates, this
pppd process continues to run in order to maintain the bundle.  If the
\fBmaster_detach\fR option has been given, pppd will detach from its
controlling terminal in this situation, even if the \fBnodetach\fR
option has been given.
.TP
.B maxconnect \fIn
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 max\-tls-\version \fIstring
(EAP-TLS, or PEAP) Configures the max allowed TLS version used during
negotiation with a peer.  The default value for this is \fI1.2\fR.  Values
allowed for this option is \fI1.0.\fR, \fI1.1\fR, \fI1.2\fR, \fI1.3\fR.
.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
modem to be asserted when opening the serial device (unless a connect
script is specified), and it will drop the DTR (Data Terminal Ready)
signal briefly when the connection is terminated and before executing
the connect script.  On Ultrix, this option implies hardware flow
control, as for the \fIcrtscts\fR option.  This is the opposite of the
\fBlocal\fR option.
.TP
.B mp
Enables the use of PPP multilink; this is an alias for the `multilink'
option.  This option is currently only available under Linux.
.TP
.B mppe\-stateful
Allow MPPE to use stateful mode.  Stateless mode is still attempted first.
The default is to disallow stateful mode.  
.TP
.B mpshortseq
Enables the use of short (12-bit) sequence numbers in multilink
headers, as opposed to 24-bit sequence numbers.  This option is only
available under Linux, and only has any effect if multilink is
enabled (see the multilink option).
.TP
.B mrru \fIn
Sets the Maximum Reconstructed Receive Unit to \fIn\fR.  The MRRU is
the maximum size for a received packet on a multilink bundle, and is
analogous to the MRU for the individual links.  This option is
currently only available under Linux, and only has any effect if
multilink is enabled (see the multilink option).
.TP
.B ms\-dns \fI<addr>
If pppd is acting as a server for Microsoft Windows clients, this
option allows pppd to supply one or two DNS (Domain Name Server)
addresses to the clients.  The first instance of this option specifies
the primary DNS address; the second instance (if given) specifies the
secondary DNS address.  (This option was present in some older
versions of pppd under the name \fBdns\-addr\fR.)
.TP
.B ms\-wins \fI<addr>
If pppd is acting as a server for Microsoft Windows or "Samba"
clients, this option allows pppd to supply one or two WINS (Windows
Internet Name Services) server addresses to the clients.  The first
instance of this option specifies the primary WINS address; the second
instance (if given) specifies the secondary WINS address.
.TP
.B multilink
Enables the use of the PPP multilink protocol.  If the peer also
supports multilink, then this link can become part of a bundle between
the local system and the peer.  If there is an existing bundle to the
peer, pppd will join this link to that bundle, otherwise pppd will
create a new bundle.  See the MULTILINK section below.  This option is
currently only available under Linux.
.TP
.B name \fIname
Set the name of the local system for authentication purposes to
\fIname\fR.  This is a privileged option.  With this option, pppd will
use lines in the secrets files which have \fIname\fR as the second
field when looking for a secret to use in authenticating the peer.  In
addition, unless overridden with the \fIuser\fR option, \fIname\fR
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 noaccomp
Disable Address/Control compression in both directions (send and
receive).
.TP
.B need\-peer\-eap
(EAP-TLS) Require the peer to verify our authentication credentials.
.TP
.B noauth
Do not require the peer to authenticate itself.  This option is
privileged.
.TP
.B nobsdcomp
Disables BSD-Compress compression; \fBpppd\fR will not request or
agree to compress packets using the BSD-Compress scheme.
.TP
.B noccp
Disable CCP (Compression Control Protocol) negotiation.  This option
should only be required if the peer is buggy and gets confused by
requests from pppd for CCP negotiation.
.TP
.B nocrtscts
Disable hardware flow control (i.e. RTS/CTS) on the serial port.
If neither the \fIcrtscts\fR nor the \fInocrtscts\fR nor the
\fIcdtrcts\fR nor the \fInocdtrcts\fR option is given, the hardware
flow control setting for the serial port is left unchanged.
.TP
.B nocdtrcts
This option is a synonym for \fInocrtscts\fR. Either of these options will
disable both forms of hardware flow control.
.TP
.B nodefaultroute
Disable the \fIdefaultroute\fR option.  The system administrator who
wishes to prevent users from adding a default route with pppd
can do so by placing this option in the /etc/ppp/options file.
.TP
.B noreplacedefaultroute
Disable the \fIreplacedefaultroute\fR option. This allows to disable a
\fIreplacedefaultroute\fR option set previously in the configuration.
.TP
.B nodefaultroute6
Disable the \fIdefaultroute6\fR option.  The system administrator who
wishes to prevent users from adding a default route with pppd
can do so by placing this option in the /etc/ppp/options file.
.TP
.B nodeflate
Disables Deflate compression; pppd will not request or agree to
compress packets using the Deflate scheme.
.TP
.B nodetach
Don't detach from the controlling terminal.  Without this option, if a
serial device other than the terminal on the standard input is
specified, pppd will fork to become a background process.
.TP
.B noendpoint
Disables pppd from sending an endpoint discriminator to the peer or
accepting one from the peer (see the MULTILINK section below).  This
option should only be required if the peer is buggy.
.TP
.B noip
Disable IPCP negotiation and IP communication.  This option should
only be required if the peer is buggy and gets confused by requests
from pppd for IPCP negotiation.
.TP
.B noipv6
Disable IPv6CP negotiation and IPv6 communication. This option should
only be required if the peer is buggy and gets confused by requests
from pppd for IPv6CP negotiation.
.TP
.B noipdefault
Disables the default behaviour when no local IP address is specified,
which is to determine (if possible) the local IP address from the
hostname.  With this option, the peer will have to supply the local IP
address during IPCP negotiation (unless it specified explicitly on the
command line or in an options file).
.TP
.B noktune
Opposite of the \fIktune\fR option; disables pppd from changing system
settings.
.TP
.B nolock
Opposite of the \fIlock\fR option; specifies that pppd should not
create a UUCP-style lock file for the serial device.  This option is
privileged.
.TP
.B nolog
Do not send log messages to a file or file descriptor.  This option
cancels the \fBlogfd\fR and \fBlogfile\fR options.
.TP
.B nomagic
Disable magic number negotiation.  With this option, pppd cannot
detect a looped-back line.  This option should only be needed if the
peer is buggy.
.TP
.B nomp
Disables the use of PPP multilink.  This option is currently only
available under Linux.
.TP
.B nomppe
Disables MPPE (Microsoft Point to Point Encryption).  This is the default.
.TP
.B nomppe\-40
Disable 40-bit encryption with MPPE.
.TP
.B nomppe\-128
Disable 128-bit encryption with MPPE.
.TP
.B nomppe\-stateful
Disable MPPE stateful mode.  This is the default.
.TP
.B nompshortseq
Disables the use of short (12-bit) sequence numbers in the PPP
multilink protocol, forcing the use of 24-bit sequence numbers.  This
option is currently only available under Linux, and only has any
effect if multilink is enabled.
.TP
.B nomultilink
Disables the use of PPP multilink.  This option is currently only
available under Linux.
.TP
.B nopcomp
Disable protocol field compression negotiation in both the receive and
the transmit direction.
.TP
.B nopersist
Exit once a connection has been made and terminated.  This is the
default unless the \fIpersist\fR or \fIdemand\fR option has been
specified.
.TP
.B nopredictor1
Do not accept or agree to Predictor\-1 compression.
.TP
.B noproxyarp
Disable the \fIproxyarp\fR option.  The system administrator who
wishes to prevent users from creating proxy ARP entries with pppd can
do so by placing this option in the /etc/ppp/options file.
.TP
.B noremoteip
Allow pppd to operate without having an IP address for the peer.  This
option is only available under Linux.  Normally, pppd will request the
peer's IP address, and if the peer does not supply it, pppd will use
an arbitrary address in the 10.x.x.x subnet.
With this option, if the peer does
not supply its IP address, pppd will not ask the peer for it, and will
not set the destination address of the ppp interface.  In this
situation, the ppp interface can be used for routing by creating
device routes, but the peer itself cannot be addressed directly for IP
traffic.
.TP
.B nosendip
Don't send our local IP address to peer during IP address negotiation.
.TP
.B notty
Normally, pppd requires a terminal device.  With this option, pppd
will allocate itself a pseudo-tty master/slave pair and use the slave
as its terminal device.  Pppd will create a child process to act as a
`character shunt' to transfer characters between the pseudo-tty master
and its standard input and output.  Thus pppd will transmit characters
on its standard output and receive characters on its standard input
even if they are not terminal devices.  This option increases the
latency and CPU overhead of transferring data over the ppp interface
as all of the characters sent and received must flow through the
character shunt process.  An explicit device name may not be given if
this option is used.
.TP
.B novj
Disable Van Jacobson style TCP/IP header compression in both the
transmit and the receive direction.
.TP
.B novjccomp
Disable the connection-ID compression option in Van Jacobson style
TCP/IP header compression.  With this option, pppd will not omit the
connection-ID byte from Van Jacobson compressed TCP/IP headers, nor
ask the peer to do so.
.TP
.B papcrypt
Indicates that all secrets in the /etc/ppp/pap\-secrets file which are
used for checking the identity of the peer are encrypted, and thus
pppd should not accept a password which, before encryption, is
identical to the secret from the /etc/ppp/pap\-secrets file.
.TP
.B pap\-max\-authreq \fIn
Set the maximum number of PAP authenticate-request transmissions to
\fIn\fR (default 10).
.TP
.B pap\-restart \fIn
Set the PAP restart interval (retransmission timeout) to \fIn\fR
seconds (default 3).
.TP
.B pap\-timeout \fIn
Set the maximum time that pppd will wait for the peer to authenticate
itself with PAP to \fIn\fR seconds (0 means no limit).
.TP
.B pass\-filter \fIfilter\-expression
Specifies a packet filter to applied to data packets being sent or
received to determine which packets should be allowed to pass.
Packets which are rejected by the filter are silently discarded.  This
option can be used to prevent specific network daemons (such as
routed) using up link bandwidth, or to provide a very basic firewall
capability.
The \fIfilter\-expression\fR syntax is as described for tcpdump(1),
except that qualifiers which are inappropriate for a PPP link, such as
\fBether\fR and \fBarp\fR, are not permitted.  Generally the filter
expression should be enclosed in single-quotes to prevent whitespace
in the expression from being interpreted by the shell.  Note that it
is possible to apply different constraints to incoming and outgoing
packets using the \fBinbound\fR and \fBoutbound\fR qualifiers. This
option is currently only available under Linux, and requires that the
kernel was configured to include PPP filtering support (CONFIG_PPP_FILTER).
.TP
.B password \fIpassword\-string
Specifies the password to use for authenticating to the peer.  Use
of this option is discouraged, as the password is likely to be visible
to other users on the system (for example, by using ps(1)).
.TP
.B persist
Do not exit after a connection is terminated; instead try to reopen
the connection. The \fBmaxfail\fR option still has an effect on
persistent connections.
.TP
.B plugin \fIfilename
Load the shared library object file \fIfilename\fR as a plugin.  This
is a privileged option.  If \fIfilename\fR does not contain a slash
(/), pppd will look in the \fB/usr/lib/pppd/\fIversion\fR directory
for the plugin, where
\fIversion\fR is the version number of pppd (for example, 2.4.2).
.TP
.B predictor1
Request that the peer compress frames that it sends using Predictor-1
compression, and agree to compress transmitted frames with Predictor-1
if requested.  This option has no effect unless the kernel driver
supports Predictor-1 compression.
.TP
.B privgroup \fIgroup\-name
Allows members of group \fIgroup\-name\fR to use privileged options.
This is a privileged option.  Use of this option requires care as
there is no guarantee that members of \fIgroup\-name\fR cannot use pppd
to become root themselves.  Consider it equivalent to putting the
members of \fIgroup\-name\fR in the kmem or disk group.
.TP
.B proxyarp
Add an entry to this system's ARP [Address Resolution Protocol] table
with the IP address of the peer and the Ethernet address of this
system.  This will have the effect of making the peer appear to other
systems to be on the local ethernet.
.TP
.B pty \fIscript
Specifies that the command \fIscript\fR is to be used to communicate
rather than a specific terminal device.  Pppd will allocate itself a
pseudo-tty master/slave pair and use the slave as its terminal
device.  The \fIscript\fR will be run in a child process with the
pseudo-tty master as its standard input and output.  An explicit
device name may not be given if this option is used.  (Note: if the
\fIrecord\fR option is used in conjunction with the \fIpty\fR option,
the child process will have pipes on its standard input and output.)
.TP
.B receive\-all
With this option, pppd will accept all control characters from the
peer, including those marked in the receive asyncmap.  Without this
option, pppd will discard those characters as specified in RFC1662.
This option should only be needed if the peer is buggy.
.TP
.B record \fIfilename
Specifies that pppd should record all characters sent and received to
a file named \fIfilename\fR.  This file is opened in append mode,
using the user's user-ID and permissions.  This option is implemented
using a pseudo-tty and a process to transfer characters between the
pseudo-tty and the real serial device, so it will increase the latency
and CPU overhead of transferring data over the ppp interface.  The
characters are stored in a tagged format with timestamps, which can be
displayed in readable form using the pppdump(8) program.
.TP
.B remotename \fIname
Set the assumed name of the remote system for authentication purposes
to \fIname\fR.
.TP
.B remotenumber \fInumber
Set the assumed telephone number of the remote system for authentication
purposes to \fInumber\fR.
.TP
.B refuse\-chap
With this option, pppd will not agree to authenticate itself to the
peer using CHAP.
.TP
.B refuse\-mschap
With this option, pppd will not agree to authenticate itself to the
peer using MS\-CHAP.
.TP
.B refuse\-mschap\-v2
With this option, pppd will not agree to authenticate itself to the
peer using MS\-CHAPv2.
.TP
.B refuse\-eap
With this option, pppd will not agree to authenticate itself to the
peer using EAP.
.TP
.B refuse\-pap
With this option, pppd will not agree to authenticate itself to the
peer using PAP.
.TP
.B require\-chap
Require the peer to authenticate itself using CHAP [Challenge
Handshake Authentication Protocol] authentication.
.TP
.B require\-mppe
Require the use of MPPE (Microsoft Point to Point Encryption).  This
option disables all other compression types.  This option enables
both 40-bit and 128-bit encryption.  In order for MPPE to successfully
come up, you must have authenticated with either MS\-CHAP or MS\-CHAPv2.
This option is presently only supported under Linux, and only if your
kernel has been configured to include MPPE support.
.TP
.B require\-mppe\-40
Require the use of MPPE, with 40-bit encryption.
.TP
.B require\-mppe\-128
Require the use of MPPE, with 128-bit encryption.
.TP
.B require\-mschap
Require the peer to authenticate itself using MS\-CHAP [Microsoft Challenge
Handshake Authentication Protocol] authentication.
.TP
.B require\-mschap\-v2
Require the peer to authenticate itself using MS\-CHAPv2 [Microsoft Challenge
Handshake Authentication Protocol, Version 2] authentication.
.TP
.B require\-eap
Require the peer to authenticate itself using EAP [Extensible
Authentication Protocol] authentication.
.TP
.B require\-pap
Require the peer to authenticate itself using PAP [Password
Authentication Protocol] authentication.
.TP
.B set \fIname\fR=\fIvalue
Set an environment variable for scripts that are invoked by pppd.
When set by a privileged source, the variable specified by \fIname\fR
cannot be changed by options contained in an unprivileged source.  See
also the \fIunset\fR option and the environment described in
\fISCRIPTS\fR.
.TP
.B show\-password
When logging the contents of PAP packets, this option causes pppd to
show the password string in the log message.
.TP
.B silent
With this option, pppd will not transmit LCP packets to initiate a
connection until a valid LCP packet is received from the peer (as for
the `passive' option with ancient versions of pppd).
.TP
.B srp\-interval \fIn
If this parameter is given and pppd uses EAP SRP\-SHA1 to authenticate
the peer (i.e., is the server), then pppd will use the optional
lightweight SRP rechallenge mechanism at intervals of \fIn\fR
seconds.  This option is faster than \fBeap\-interval\fR
reauthentication because it uses a hash\-based mechanism and does not
derive a new session key.
.TP
.B srp\-pn\-secret \fIstring
Set the long-term pseudonym-generating secret for the server.  This
value is optional and if set, needs to be known at the server
(authenticator) side only, and should be different for each server (or
poll of identical servers).  It is used along with the current date to
generate a key to encrypt and decrypt the client's identity contained
in the pseudonym.
.TP
.B srp\-use\-pseudonym
When operating as an EAP SRP\-SHA1 client, attempt to use the pseudonym
stored in ~/.ppp_pseudonym first as the identity, and save in this
file any pseudonym offered by the peer during authentication.
.TP
.B stop\-bits \fIn
Set the number of stop bits for the serial port. Valid values are 1 or 2.
The default value is 1.
.TP
.B sync
Use synchronous HDLC serial encoding instead of asynchronous.
The device used by pppd with this option must have sync support.
Currently supports Microgate SyncLink adapters
under Linux and FreeBSD 2.2.8 and later.
.TP
.B tls\-verify\-method \fIstring
(EAP-TLS, or PEAP) Match the value specified for \fIremotename\fR to that that
of the X509 certificates subject name, common name, or suffix of the common
name.  Respective values allowed for this option is: \fInone\fR, \fIsubject\fR,
\fIname\fR, or \fIsuffix\fR.  The default value for this option is \fIname\fR.
.TP
.B tls\-verify\-key\-usage
(EAP-TLS, or PEAP) Enables examination of peer certificate's purpose, and
extended key usage attributes.
.TP
.B unit \fInum
Sets the ppp unit number (for a ppp0 or ppp1 etc interface name) for outbound
connections.  If the unit is already in use a dynamically allocated number will
be used.
.TP
.B ifname \fIstring
Set the ppp interface name for outbound connections.  If the interface name is
already in use, or if the name cannot be used for any other reason, pppd will
terminate.
.TP
.B unset \fIname
Remove a variable from the environment variable for scripts that are
invoked by pppd.  When specified by a privileged source, the variable
\fIname\fR cannot be set by options contained in an unprivileged
source.  See also the \fIset\fR option and the environment described
in \fISCRIPTS\fR.
.TP
.B updetach
With this option, pppd will detach from its controlling terminal once
it has successfully established the ppp connection (to the point where
the first network control protocol, usually the IP control protocol,
has come up).
.TP
.B up_sdnotify
Use this option to run pppd in systemd service units of Type=notify
(\fBup_sdnotify\fR implies \fBnodetach\fR).
When \fBup_sdnotify\fR is enabled, pppd will notify systemd once
it has successfully established the ppp connection (to the point where
the first network control protocl, usually the IP control protocol,
has come up). This option is only availble when pppd is compiled with
systemd support.
.TP
.B usehostname
Enforce the use of the hostname (with domain name appended, if given)
as the name of the local system for authentication purposes (overrides
the \fIname\fR option).  This option is not normally needed since the
\fIname\fR option is privileged.
.TP
.B usepeerdns
Ask the peer for up to 2 DNS server addresses.  The addresses supplied
by the peer (if any) are passed to the /etc/ppp/ip\-up script in the
environment variables DNS1 and DNS2, and the environment variable
USEPEERDNS will be set to 1.  In addition, pppd will create an
/etc/ppp/resolv.conf file containing one or two nameserver lines with
the address(es) supplied by the peer.
.TP
.B usepeerwins
Ask the peer for up to 2 WINS server addresses.  The addresses supplied
by the peer (if any) are passed to the /etc/ppp/ip\-up script in the
environment variables WINS1 and WINS2, and the environment variable
USEPEERWINS will be set to 1.
.LP
Please note that some modems (like the Huawei E220) requires this option in
order to avoid a race condition that results in the incorrect DNS servers
being assigned.
.TP
.B user \fIname
Sets the name used for authenticating the local system to the peer to
\fIname\fR.
.TP
.B vj\-max\-slots \fIn
Sets the number of connection slots to be used by the Van Jacobson
TCP/IP header compression and decompression code to \fIn\fR, which
must be between 2 and 16 (inclusive).
.TP
.B welcome \fIscript
Run the executable or shell command specified by \fIscript\fR before
initiating PPP negotiation, after the connect script (if any) has
completed.  A value for this option from a privileged source cannot be
overridden by a non-privileged user.
.TP
.B xonxoff
Use software flow control (i.e. XON/XOFF) to control the flow of data on
the serial port.
.SH PPPOE OPTIONS
To establish PPP link over Ethernet (PPPoE) it is needed to load pppd's
\fBplugin pppoe.so\fR and then specify option \fBnic-\fIinterface\fR
instead of modem options \fIttyname\fR and \fIspeed\fR.
Recognized pppd's PPPoE options are:
.TP
.B nic-\fIinterface
Use the ethernet device \fIinterface\fR to communicate with the peer.
For example, establishing PPPoE link on \fIeth0\fR interface is done
by specifying ppp'd option \fBnic-eth0\fR. Prefix \fBnic-\fR for this
option may be avoided if interface name is unambiguous and does not
look like any other pppd's option.
.TP
.B pppoe\-service \fIname
Connect to specified PPPoE service name. For backward compatibility also
\fBrp_pppoe_service\fP option name is supported.
.TP
.B pppoe\-ac \fIname
Connect to specified PPPoE access concentrator name. For backward
compatibility also \fBrp_pppoe_ac\fP option name is supported.
.TP
.B pppoe\-sess \fIsessid\fP:\fImacaddr
Attach to existing PPPoE session. For backward compatibility also
\fBrp_pppoe_sess\fP option name is supported.
.TP
.B pppoe\-verbose \fIn
Be verbose about discovered access concentrators. When set to 2 or bigger
value then dump also discovery packets. For backward compatibility also
\fBrp_pppoe_verbose\fP option name is supported.
.TP
.B pppoe\-mac \fImacaddr
Connect to specified MAC address.
.TP
.B pppoe\-host\-uniq \fIstring
Set the PPPoE Host-Uniq tag to the supplied hex string.
By default PPPoE Host-Uniq tag is set to the pppd's process PID.
For backward compatibility this option may be specified without
\fBpppoe-\fP prefix.
.TP
.B pppoe\-padi\-timeout \fIn
Initial timeout for discovery packets in seconds (default 5).
.TP
.B pppoe\-padi\-attempts \fIn
Number of discovery attempts (default 3).
.SH OPTIONS FILES
Options can be taken from files as well as the command line.  Pppd
reads options from the files /etc/ppp/options, ~/.ppprc and
/etc/ppp/options.\fIttyname\fR (in that order) before processing the
options on the command line.  (In fact, the command-line options are
scanned to find the terminal name before the options.\fIttyname\fR
file is read.)  In forming the name of the options.\fIttyname\fR file,
the initial /dev/ is removed from the terminal name, and any remaining
/ characters are replaced with dots.
.PP
An options file is parsed into a series of words, delimited by
whitespace.  Whitespace can be included in a word by enclosing the
word in double-quotes (").  A backslash (\e) quotes the following character.
A hash (#) starts a comment, which continues until the end of the
line.  There is no restriction on using the \fIfile\fR or \fIcall\fR
options within an options file.
.SH SECURITY
.I pppd
provides system administrators with sufficient access control that PPP
access to a server machine can be provided to legitimate users without
fear of compromising the security of the server or the network it's
on.  This control is provided through restrictions on which IP
addresses the peer may use, based on its authenticated identity (if
any), and through restrictions on which options a non-privileged user
may use.  Several of pppd's options are privileged, in particular
those which permit potentially insecure configurations; these options
are only accepted in files which are under the control of the system
administrator, or if pppd is being run by root.
.PP
The default behaviour of pppd is to allow an unauthenticated peer to
use a given IP address only if the system does not already have a
route to that IP address.  For example, a system with a
permanent connection to the wider internet will normally have a
default route, and thus all peers will have to authenticate themselves
in order to set up a connection.  On such a system, the \fIauth\fR
option is the default.  On the other hand, a system where the
PPP link is the only connection to the internet will not normally have
a default route, so the peer will be able to use almost any IP address
without authenticating itself.
.PP
As indicated above, some security-sensitive options are privileged,
which means that they may not be used by an ordinary non-privileged
user running a setuid-root pppd, either on the command line, in the
user's ~/.ppprc file, or in an options file read using the \fIfile\fR
option.  Privileged options may be used in /etc/ppp/options file or in
an options file read using the \fIcall\fR option.  If pppd is being
run by the root user, privileged options can be used without
restriction.
.PP
When opening the device, pppd uses either the invoking user's user ID
or the root UID (that is, 0), depending on whether the device name was
specified by the user or the system administrator.  If the device name
comes from a privileged source, that is, /etc/ppp/options or an
options file read using the \fIcall\fR option, pppd uses full root
privileges when opening the device.  Thus, by creating an appropriate
file under /etc/ppp/peers, the system administrator can allow users to
establish a ppp connection via a device which they would not normally
have permission to access.  Otherwise pppd uses the invoking user's
real UID when opening the device.
.SH AUTHENTICATION
Authentication is the process whereby one peer convinces the other of
its identity.  This involves the first peer sending its name to the
other, together with some kind of secret information which could only
come from the genuine authorized user of that name.  In such an
exchange, we will call the first peer the "client" and the other the
"server".  The client has a name by which it identifies itself to the
server, and the server also has a name by which it identifies itself
to the client.  Generally the genuine client shares some secret (or
password) with the server, and authenticates itself by proving that it
knows that secret.  Very often, the names used for authentication
correspond to the internet hostnames of the peers, but this is not
essential.
.LP
At present, pppd supports three authentication protocols: the Password
Authentication Protocol (PAP), Challenge Handshake Authentication
Protocol (CHAP), and Extensible Authentication Protocol (EAP).  PAP
involves the client sending its name and a cleartext password to the
server to authenticate itself.  In contrast, the server initiates the
CHAP authentication exchange by sending a challenge to the client (the
challenge packet includes the server's name).  The client must respond
with a response which includes its name plus a hash value derived from
the shared secret and the challenge, in order to prove that it knows
the secret.  EAP supports CHAP-style authentication, and also includes
the SRP\-SHA1 mechanism, which is resistant to dictionary-based attacks
and does not require a cleartext password on the server side.
.LP
The PPP protocol, being symmetrical, allows both peers to require the
other to authenticate itself.  In that case, two separate and
independent authentication exchanges will occur.  The two exchanges
could use different authentication protocols, and in principle,
different names could be used in the two exchanges.
.LP
The default behaviour of pppd is to agree to authenticate if
requested, and to not require authentication from the peer.  However,
pppd will not agree to authenticate itself with a particular protocol
if it has no secrets which could be used to do so.
.LP
Pppd stores secrets for use in authentication in secrets
files (/etc/ppp/pap\-secrets for PAP, /etc/ppp/chap\-secrets for CHAP,
MS\-CHAP, MS\-CHAPv2, and EAP MD5-Challenge, and /etc/ppp/srp\-secrets
for EAP SRP\-SHA1).
All secrets files have the same format.  The secrets files can
contain secrets for pppd to use in authenticating itself to other
systems, as well as secrets for pppd to use when authenticating other
systems to itself.
.LP
Each line in a secrets file contains one secret.  A given secret is
specific to a particular combination of client and server - it can
only be used by that client to authenticate itself to that server.
Thus each line in a secrets file has at least 3 fields: the name of
the client, the name of the server, and the secret.  These fields may
be followed by a list of the IP addresses that the specified client
may use when connecting to the specified server.
.LP
A secrets file is parsed into words as for a options file, so the
client name, server name and secrets fields must each be one word,
with any embedded spaces or other special characters quoted or
escaped.  Note that case is significant in the client and server names
and in the secret.
.LP
If the secret starts with an `@', what follows is assumed to be the
name of a file from which to read the secret.  A "*" as the client or
server name matches any name.  When selecting a secret, pppd takes the
best match, i.e.  the match with the fewest wildcards.
.LP
Any following words on the same line are taken to be a list of
acceptable IP addresses for that client.  If there are only 3 words on
the line, or if the first word is "\-", then all IP addresses are
disallowed.  To allow any address, use "*".  A word starting with "!"
indicates that the specified address is \fInot\fR acceptable.  An
address may be followed by "/" and a number \fIn\fR, to indicate a
whole subnet, i.e. all addresses which have the same value in the most
significant \fIn\fR bits.  In this form, the address may be followed
by a plus sign ("+") to indicate that one address from the subnet is
authorized, based on the ppp network interface unit number in use.
In this case, the host part of the address will be set to the unit
number plus one.
.LP
Thus a secrets file contains both secrets for use in authenticating
other hosts, plus secrets which we use for authenticating ourselves to
others.  When pppd is authenticating the peer (checking the peer's
identity), it chooses a secret with the peer's name in the first
field and the name of the local system in the second field.  The
name of the local system defaults to the hostname, with the domain
name appended if the \fIdomain\fR option is used.  This default can be
overridden with the \fIname\fR option, except when the
\fIusehostname\fR option is used.  (For EAP SRP\-SHA1, see the
srp\-entry(8) utility for generating proper validator entries to be
used in the "secret" field.)
.LP
When pppd is choosing a secret to use in authenticating itself to the
peer, it first determines what name it is going to use to identify
itself to the peer.  This name can be specified by the user with the
\fIuser\fR option.  If this option is not used, the name defaults to
the name of the local system, determined as described in the previous
paragraph.  Then pppd looks for a secret with this name in the first
field and the peer's name in the second field.  Pppd will know the
name of the peer if CHAP or EAP authentication is being used, because
the peer will have sent it in the challenge packet.  However, if PAP
is being used, pppd will have to determine the peer's name from the
options specified by the user.  The user can specify the peer's name
directly with the \fIremotename\fR option.  Otherwise, if the remote
IP address was specified by a name (rather than in numeric form), that
name will be used as the peer's name.  Failing that, pppd will use the
null string as the peer's name.
.LP
When authenticating the peer with PAP, the supplied password is first
compared with the secret from the secrets file.  If the password
doesn't match the secret, the password is encrypted using crypt() and
checked against the secret again.  Thus secrets for authenticating the
peer can be stored in encrypted form if desired.  If the
\fIpapcrypt\fR option is given, the first (unencrypted) comparison is
omitted, for better security.
.LP
Furthermore, if the \fIlogin\fR option was specified, the username and
password are also checked against the system password database.  Thus,
the system administrator can set up the pap\-secrets file to allow PPP
access only to certain users, and to restrict the set of IP addresses
that each user can use.  Typically, when using the \fIlogin\fR option,
the secret in /etc/ppp/pap\-secrets would be "", which will match any
password supplied by the peer.  This avoids the need to have the same
secret in two places.
.LP
Authentication must be satisfactorily completed before IPCP (or any
other Network Control Protocol) can be started.  If the peer is
required to authenticate itself, and fails to do so, pppd will
terminated the link (by closing LCP).  If IPCP negotiates an
unacceptable IP address for the remote host, IPCP will be closed.  IP
packets can only be sent or received when IPCP is open.
.LP
In some cases it is desirable to allow some hosts which can't
authenticate themselves to connect and use one of a restricted set of
IP addresses, even when the local host generally requires
authentication.  If the peer refuses to authenticate itself when
requested, pppd takes that as equivalent to authenticating with PAP
using the empty string for the username and password.  Thus, by adding
a line to the pap\-secrets file which specifies the empty string for
the client and password, it is possible to allow restricted access to
hosts which refuse to authenticate themselves.
.SH ROUTING
.LP
When IPCP negotiation is completed successfully, pppd will inform the
kernel of the local and remote IP addresses for the ppp interface.
This is sufficient to create a host route to the remote end of the
link, which will enable the peers to exchange IP packets.
Communication with other machines generally requires further
modification to routing tables and/or ARP (Address Resolution
Protocol) tables.  In most cases the \fIdefaultroute\fR and/or
\fIproxyarp\fR options are sufficient for this, but in some cases
further intervention is required.  The /etc/ppp/ip\-up script can be
used for this.
.LP
Sometimes it is desirable to add a default route through the remote
host, as in the case of a machine whose only connection to the
Internet is through the ppp interface.  The \fIdefaultroute\fR option
causes pppd to create such a default route when IPCP comes up, and
delete it when the link is terminated.
.LP
In some cases it is desirable to use proxy ARP, for example on a
server machine connected to a LAN, in order to allow other hosts to
communicate with the remote host.  The \fIproxyarp\fR option causes
pppd to look for a network interface on the same subnet as the remote
host (an interface supporting broadcast and ARP, which is up and not a
point-to-point or loopback interface).  If found, pppd creates a
permanent, published ARP entry with the IP address of the remote host
and the hardware address of the network interface found.
.LP
When the \fIdemand\fR option is used, the interface IP addresses have
already been set at the point when IPCP comes up.  If pppd has not
been able to negotiate the same addresses that it used to configure
the interface (for example when the peer is an ISP that uses dynamic
IP address assignment), pppd has to change the interface IP addresses
to the negotiated addresses.  This may disrupt existing connections,
and the use of demand dialling with peers that do dynamic IP address
assignment is not recommended.
.SH MULTILINK
Multilink PPP provides the capability to combine two or more PPP links
between a pair of machines into a single `bundle', which appears as a
single virtual PPP link which has the combined bandwidth of the
individual links.  Currently, multilink PPP is only supported under
Linux.
.LP
Pppd detects that the link it is controlling is connected to the same
peer as another link using the peer's endpoint discriminator and the
authenticated identity of the peer (if it authenticates itself).  The
endpoint discriminator is a block of data which is hopefully unique
for each peer.  Several types of data can be used, including
locally-assigned strings of bytes, IP addresses, MAC addresses,
randomly strings of bytes, or E\-164 phone numbers.  The endpoint
discriminator sent to the peer by pppd can be set using the endpoint
option.
.LP
In some circumstances the peer may send no endpoint discriminator or a
non-unique value.  The bundle option adds an extra string which is
added to the peer's endpoint discriminator and authenticated identity
when matching up links to be joined together in a bundle.  The bundle
option can also be used to allow the establishment of multiple bundles
between the local system and the peer.  Pppd uses a TDB database in
/var/run/pppd2.tdb to match up links.
.LP
Assuming that multilink is enabled and the peer is willing to
negotiate multilink, then when pppd is invoked to bring up the first
link to the peer, it will detect that no other link is connected to
the peer and create a new bundle, that is, another ppp network
interface unit.  When another pppd is invoked to bring up another link
to the peer, it will detect the existing bundle and join its link to
it.
.LP
If the first link terminates (for example, because of a hangup or a
received LCP terminate-request) the bundle is not destroyed unless
there are no other links remaining in the bundle.  Rather than
exiting, the first pppd keeps running after its link terminates, until
all the links in the bundle have terminated.  If the first pppd
receives a SIGTERM or SIGINT signal, it will destroy the bundle and
send a SIGHUP to the pppd processes for each of the links in the
bundle.  If the first pppd receives a SIGHUP signal, it will terminate
its link but not the bundle.
.LP
Note: demand mode is not currently supported with multilink.
.SH EXAMPLES
.LP
The following examples assume that the /etc/ppp/options file contains
the \fIauth\fR option (as in the default /etc/ppp/options file in the
ppp distribution).
.LP
Probably the most common use of pppd is to dial out to an ISP.  This
can be done with a command such as
.IP
pppd call isp
.LP
where the /etc/ppp/peers/isp file is set up by the system
administrator to contain something like this:
.IP
ttyS0 19200 crtscts
.br
connect '/usr/sbin/chat \-v \-f /etc/ppp/chat\-isp'
.br
noauth
.LP
In this example, we are using chat to dial the ISP's modem and go
through any logon sequence required.  The /etc/ppp/chat\-isp file
contains the script used by chat; it could for example contain
something like this:
.IP
ABORT "NO CARRIER"
.br
ABORT "NO DIALTONE"
.br
ABORT "ERROR"
.br
ABORT "NO ANSWER"
.br
ABORT "BUSY"
.br
ABORT "Username/Password Incorrect"
.br
"" "at"
.br
OK "at&d0&c1"
.br
OK "atdt2468135"
.br
"name:" "^Umyuserid"
.br
"word:" "\eqmypassword"
.br
"ispts" "\eq^Uppp"
.br
"~\-^Uppp\-~"
.LP
See the chat(8) man page for details of chat scripts.
.LP
Pppd can also be used to provide a dial-in ppp service for users.  If
the users already have login accounts, the simplest way to set up the
ppp service is to let the users log in to their accounts and run pppd
(installed setuid-root) with a command such as
.IP
pppd proxyarp
.LP
To allow a user to use the PPP facilities, you need to allocate an IP
address for that user's machine and create an entry in
/etc/ppp/pap\-secrets, /etc/ppp/chap\-secrets, or /etc/ppp/srp\-secrets
(depending on which authentication method the PPP implementation on
the user's machine supports), so that the user's machine can
authenticate itself.  For example, if Joe has a machine called
"joespc" that is to be allowed to dial in to the machine called
"server" and use the IP address joespc.my.net, you would add an entry
like this to /etc/ppp/pap\-secrets or /etc/ppp/chap\-secrets:
.IP
joespc  server  "joe's secret"  joespc.my.net
.LP
(See srp\-entry(8) for a means to generate the server's entry when
SRP\-SHA1 is in use.)
Alternatively, you can create a username called (for example) "ppp",
whose login shell is pppd and whose home directory is /etc/ppp.
Options to be used when pppd is run this way can be put in
/etc/ppp/.ppprc.
.LP
If your serial connection is any more complicated than a piece of
wire, you may need to arrange for some control characters to be
escaped.  In particular, it is often useful to escape XON (^Q) and
XOFF (^S), using \fIasyncmap a0000\fR.  If the path includes a telnet,
you probably should escape ^] as well (\fIasyncmap 200a0000\fR).  If
the path includes an rlogin, you will need to use the \fIescape ff\fR
option on the end which is running the rlogin client, since many
rlogin implementations are not transparent; they will remove the
sequence [0xff, 0xff, 0x73, 0x73, followed by any 8 bytes] from the
stream.
.SH DIAGNOSTICS
.LP
Messages are sent to the syslog daemon using facility LOG_DAEMON.
(This can be overridden by recompiling pppd with the macro
LOG_PPP defined as the desired facility.)  See the syslog(8)
documentation for details of where the syslog daemon will write the
messages.  On most systems, the syslog daemon uses the
/etc/syslog.conf file to specify the destination(s) for syslog
messages.  You may need to edit that file to suit.
.LP
The \fIdebug\fR option causes the contents of all control packets sent
or received to be logged, that is, all LCP, PAP, CHAP, EAP, or IPCP packets.
This can be useful if the PPP negotiation does not succeed or if
authentication fails.
If debugging is enabled at compile time, the \fIdebug\fR option also
causes other debugging messages to be logged.
.LP
Debugging can also be enabled or disabled by sending a SIGUSR1 signal
to the pppd process.  This signal acts as a toggle.
.SH EXIT STATUS
The exit status of pppd is set to indicate whether any error was
detected, or the reason for the link being terminated.  The values
used are:
.TP
.B 0
Pppd has detached, or otherwise the connection was successfully
established and terminated at the peer's request.
.TP
.B 1
An immediately fatal error of some kind occurred, such as an essential
system call failing, or running out of virtual memory.
.TP
.B 2
An error was detected in processing the options given, such as two
mutually exclusive options being used.
.TP
.B 3
Pppd is not setuid-root and the invoking user is not root.
.TP
.B 4
The kernel does not support PPP, for example, the PPP kernel driver is
not included or cannot be loaded.
.TP
.B 5
Pppd terminated because it was sent a SIGINT, SIGTERM or SIGHUP
signal.
.TP
.B 6
The serial port could not be locked.
.TP
.B 7
The serial port could not be opened.
.TP
.B 8
The connect script failed (returned a non-zero exit status).
.TP
.B 9
The command specified as the argument to the \fIpty\fR option could
not be run.
.TP
.B 10
The PPP negotiation failed, that is, it didn't reach the point where
at least one network protocol (e.g. IP) was running.
.TP
.B 11
The peer system failed (or refused) to authenticate itself.
.TP
.B 12
The link was established successfully and terminated because it was
idle.
.TP
.B 13
The link was established successfully and terminated because the
connect time limit was reached.
.TP
.B 14
Callback was negotiated and an incoming call should arrive shortly.
.TP
.B 15
The link was terminated because the peer is not responding to echo
requests.
.TP
.B 16
The link was terminated by the modem hanging up.
.TP
.B 17
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
usually shell scripts, but could be executable code files instead.
Pppd does not wait for the scripts to finish (except for the net\-init,
net\-pre\-up and ip\-pre\-up scripts).  The scripts are
executed as root (with the real and effective user-id set to 0), so
that they can do things such as update routing tables or run
privileged daemons.  Be careful that the contents of these scripts do
not compromise your system's security.  Pppd runs the scripts with
standard input, output and error redirected to /dev/null, and with an
environment that is empty except for some environment variables that
give information about the link.  The environment variables that pppd
sets are:
.TP
.B DEVICE
The name of the serial tty device being used.
.TP
.B IFNAME
The name of the network interface being used.
.TP
.B IPLOCAL
The IP address for the local end of the link.  This is only set when
IPCP has come up.
.TP
.B IPREMOTE
The IP address for the remote end of the link.  This is only set when
IPCP has come up.
.TP
.B LLLOCAL
The Link-Local IPv6 address for the local end of the link.  This is only
set when IPV6CP has come up.
.TP
.B LLREMOTE
The Link-Local IPv6 address for the remote end of the link.  This is only
set when IPV6CP has come up.
.TP
.B PEERNAME
The authenticated name of the peer.  This is only set if the peer
authenticates itself.
.TP
.B SPEED
The baud rate of the tty device.
.TP
.B ORIG_UID
The real user-id of the user who invoked pppd.
.TP
.B PPPLOGNAME
The username of the real user-id that invoked pppd. This is always set.
.P
For the ip-down and auth-down scripts, pppd also sets the following
variables giving statistics for the connection:
.TP
.B CONNECT_TIME
The number of seconds from when the PPP negotiation started until the
connection was terminated.
.TP
.B BYTES_SENT
The number of bytes sent (at the level of the serial port) during the
connection.
.TP
.B BYTES_RCVD
The number of bytes received (at the level of the serial port) during
the connection.
.TP
.B LINKNAME
The logical name of the link, set with the \fIlinkname\fR option.
.TP
.B CALL_FILE
The value of the \fIcall\fR option.
.TP
.B DNS1
If the peer supplies DNS server addresses, this variable is set to the
first DNS server address supplied (whether or not the usepeerdns
option was given).
.TP
.B DNS2
If the peer supplies DNS server addresses, this variable is set to the
second DNS server address supplied (whether or not the usepeerdns
option was given).
.TP
.B WINS1
If the peer supplies WINS server addresses, this variable is set to the
first WINS server address supplied.
.TP
.B WINS2
If the peer supplies WINS server addresses, this variable is set to the
second WINS server address supplied.
.P
.P
Pppd invokes the following scripts, if they exist.  It is not an error
if they don't exist.
.TP
.B /etc/ppp/auth\-up
A program or script which is executed after the remote system
successfully authenticates itself.  It is executed with the parameters
.IP
\fIinterface\-name peer\-name user\-name tty\-device speed ipparam\fR
.IP
Note that this script is not executed if the peer doesn't authenticate
itself, for example when the \fInoauth\fR option is used.
.TP
.B /etc/ppp/auth\-down
A program or script which is executed when the link goes down, if
/etc/ppp/auth\-up was previously executed.  It is executed in the same
manner with the same parameters as /etc/ppp/auth\-up.
.TP
.B /etc/ppp/ip\-pre\-up
A program or script which is executed just before the ppp network
interface is brought up.  It is executed with the same parameters as
the ip\-up script (below).  At this point the interface exists and has
IP addresses assigned but is still down.  This can be used to
add firewall rules before any IP traffic can pass through the
interface.  Pppd will wait for this script to finish before bringing
the interface up, so this script should run quickly.
.PP
WARNING:  Please note that on systems where a single interface carries multiple
protocols (Linux) ip-pre-up is NOT actually guaranteed to execute prior to the
interface moving into an up state, although IP information won't be known you
should consider using net-pre-up instead, alternatively, disable other NCPs
such that IPv4 is the only negotiated protocol - which will also result in a
guarantee that ip-pre-up is called prior to the interface going into an UP
state.
.TP
.B /etc/ppp/ip\-up
A program or script which is executed when the link is available for
sending and receiving IP packets (that is, IPCP has come up).  It is
executed with the parameters
.IP
\fIinterface\-name tty\-device speed local\-IP\-address
remote\-IP\-address ipparam\fR
.TP
.B /etc/ppp/ip\-down
A program or script which is executed when the link is no longer
available for sending and receiving IP packets.  This script can be
used for undoing the effects of the /etc/ppp/ip\-up and
/etc/ppp/ip\-pre\-up scripts.  It is
invoked in the same manner and with the same parameters as the ip\-up
script.
.TP
.B /etc/ppp/ipv6\-up
Like /etc/ppp/ip\-up, except that it is executed when the link is available 
for sending and receiving IPv6 packets. It is executed with the parameters
.IP
\fIinterface\-name tty\-device speed local\-link\-local\-address
remote\-link\-local\-address ipparam\fR
.TP
.B /etc/ppp/ipv6\-down
Similar to /etc/ppp/ip\-down, but it is executed when IPv6 packets can no
longer be transmitted on the link. It is executed with the same parameters 
as the ipv6\-up script.
.TP
.B /etc/ppp/net\-init
This script will be executed the moment the ppp unit number is known.  This
script will be waited for and should not cause significant delays.  This can be
used to update book-keeping type systems external to ppp and provides the only
guaranteed point where a script can be executed knowing the ppp unit number
prior to LCP being initiated.  It is executed with the parameters
.IP
\fIinterface\-name tty\-device speed ipparam
.TP
.B /etc/ppp/net\-pre\-up
This script will be executed just prior to NCP negotiations initiating, and is
guaranteed to be executed whilst the interface (Linux) and/or sub-interfaces
(Solaris) as the case may be is/are still down.  ppp will block waiting for
this script to complete, and the interface may be safely renamed in this script
(using for example "ip li set dev $1 name ppp-foobar".  The parameters are the
same as for net\-init.
.TP
.B /etc/ppp/net\-down
This script will be executed just prior to ppp terminating and will not be
waited for.  The parameters are the same as for net\-init.
.TP
.B /var/run/ppp\fIn\fB.pid \fR(BSD or Linux), \fB/etc/ppp/ppp\fIn\fB.pid \fR(others)
Process-ID for pppd process on ppp interface unit \fIn\fR.
.TP
.B /var/run/ppp\-\fIname\fB.pid \fR(BSD or Linux),
\fB/etc/ppp/ppp\-\fIname\fB.pid \fR(others)
Process-ID for pppd process for logical link \fIname\fR (see the
\fIlinkname\fR option).
.TP
.B /var/run/pppd2.tdb
Database containing information about pppd processes, interfaces and
links, used for matching links to bundles in multilink operation.  May
be examined by external programs to obtain information about running
pppd instances, the interfaces and devices they are using, IP address
assignments, etc.
.B /etc/ppp/pap\-secrets
Usernames, passwords and IP addresses for PAP authentication.  This
file should be owned by root and not readable or writable by any other
user.  Pppd will log a warning if this is not the case.
.TP
.B /etc/ppp/chap\-secrets
Names, secrets and IP addresses for CHAP/MS\-CHAP/MS\-CHAPv2 authentication.
As for /etc/ppp/pap\-secrets, this file should be owned by root and not
readable or writable by any other user.  Pppd will log a warning if
this is not the case.
.TP
.B /etc/ppp/srp\-secrets
Names, secrets, and IP addresses for EAP authentication.  As for
/etc/ppp/pap\-secrets, this file should be owned by root and not
readable or writable by any other user.  Pppd will log a warning if
this is not the case.
.TP
.B ~/.ppp_pseudonym
Saved client-side SRP\-SHA1 pseudonym.  See the \fIsrp\-use\-pseudonym\fR
option for details.
.TP
.B /etc/ppp/options
System default options for pppd, read before user default options or
command-line options.
.TP
.B ~/.ppprc
User default options, read before /etc/ppp/options.\fIttyname\fR.
.TP
.B /etc/ppp/options.\fIttyname
System default options for the serial port being used, read after
~/.ppprc.  In forming the \fIttyname\fR part of this
filename, an initial /dev/ is stripped from the port name (if
present), and any slashes in the remaining part are converted to
dots.
.TP
.B /etc/ppp/peers
A directory containing options files which may contain privileged
options, even if pppd was invoked by a user other than root.  The
system administrator can create options files in this directory to
permit non-privileged users to dial out without requiring the peer to
authenticate, but only to certain trusted peers.
.SH SEE ALSO
.BR chat (8),
.BR pppstats (8)
.TP
.B RFC1144
Jacobson, V.
\fICompressing TCP/IP headers for low-speed serial links.\fR
February 1990.
.TP
.B RFC1321
Rivest, R.
.I The MD5 Message-Digest Algorithm.
April 1992.
.TP
.B RFC1332
McGregor, G.
.I PPP Internet Protocol Control Protocol (IPCP).
May 1992.
.TP
.B RFC1334
Lloyd, B.; Simpson, W.A.
.I PPP authentication protocols.
October 1992.
.TP
.B RFC1661
Simpson, W.A.
.I The Point-to-Point Protocol (PPP).
July 1994.
.TP
.B RFC1662
Simpson, W.A.
.I PPP in HDLC-like Framing.
July 1994.
.TP
.B RFC1990
Sklower, K.; et al.,
.I The PPP Multilink Protocol (MP).
August 1996.
.TP
.B RFC2284
Blunk, L.; Vollbrecht, J.,
.I PPP Extensible Authentication Protocol (EAP).
March 1998.
.TP
.B RFC2472
Haskin, D.
.I IP Version 6 over PPP
December 1998.
.TP
.B RFC2945
Wu, T.,
.I The SRP Authentication and Key Exchange System
September 2000.
.TP
.B draft\-ietf\-pppext\-eap\-srp\-03.txt
Carlson, J.; et al.,
.I EAP SRP\-SHA1 Authentication Protocol.
July 2001.
.SH NOTES
Some limited degree of control can be exercised over a running pppd
process by sending it a signal from the list below.
.TP
.B SIGINT, SIGTERM
These signals cause pppd to terminate the link (by closing LCP),
restore the serial device settings, and exit.  If a connector or
disconnector process is currently running, pppd will send the same
signal to its process group, so as to terminate the connector or
disconnector process.
.TP
.B SIGHUP
This signal causes pppd to terminate the link, restore the serial
device settings, and close the serial device.  If the \fIpersist\fR or
\fIdemand\fR option has been specified, pppd will try to reopen the
serial device and start another connection (after the holdoff period).
Otherwise pppd will exit.  If this signal is received during the
holdoff period, it causes pppd to end the holdoff period immediately.
If a connector or disconnector process is running, pppd will send the
same signal to its process group.
.TP
.B SIGUSR1
This signal toggles the state of the \fIdebug\fR option.
.TP
.B SIGUSR2
This signal causes pppd to renegotiate compression.  This can be
useful to re-enable compression after it has been disabled as a result
of a fatal decompression error.  (Fatal decompression errors generally
indicate a bug in one or other implementation.)

.SH AUTHORS
Paul Mackerras (paulus@ozlabs.org), based on earlier work by
Drew Perkins,
Brad Clements,
Karl Fox,
Greg Christy,
and
Brad Parker.

.SH COPYRIGHT
Pppd is copyrighted and made available under conditions which provide
that it may be copied and used in source or binary forms provided that
the conditions listed below are met.  Portions of pppd are covered by
the following copyright notices:
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Copyright (c) 1993-2004 Paul Mackerras. All rights reserved.
.br
Copyright (c) 1995 Pedro Roque Marques.  All rights reserved.
.br
Copyright (c) 1995 Eric Rosenquist.  All rights reserved.
.br
Copyright (c) 1999 Tommi Komulainen.  All rights reserved.
.br
Copyright (C) Andrew Tridgell 1999
.br
Copyright (c) 2000 by Sun Microsystems, Inc.  All rights reserved.
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Copyright (c) 2001 by Sun Microsystems, Inc.  All rights reserved.
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