.\" manual page [] for pppd 2.3
-.\" $Id: pppd.8,v 1.35 1999/03/19 01:24:57 paulus Exp $
+.\" $Id: pppd.8,v 1.40 1999/05/13 00:34:04 paulus Exp $
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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 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.
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.
+.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.
connection until a valid LCP packet is received from the peer (as for
the `passive' option with ancient versions of pppd).
.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 usehostname
Enforce the use of the hostname (with domain name appended, if given)
as the name of the local system for authentication purposes (overrides
.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.
.SH SCRIPTS
Pppd invokes scripts at various stages in its processing which can be
used to perform site-specific ancillary processing. These scripts are
.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.
.P
Pppd invokes the following scripts, if they exist. It is not an error
if they don't exist.
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