Apply patch for sync serial support from Paul Fulghum.

[ppp.git] / pppd / pppd.8

diff --git a/pppd/pppd.8 b/pppd/pppd.8
index 59d74c0bcc980e5b2e00be1668828c4dfc487623..59e8c0251ff4b07a0e0263ab8891efac1b4c1655 100644 (file)
--- a/pppd/pppd.8
+++ b/pppd/pppd.8
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 .\" manual page [] for pppd 2.3
-.\" $Id: pppd.8,v 1.36 1999/03/22 05:55:34 paulus Exp $
+.\" $Id: pppd.8,v 1.38 1999/03/30 06:33:09 paulus Exp $
 .\" SH section heading
 .\" SS subsection heading
 .\" LP paragraph
@@ -655,6 +655,16 @@ 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.
@@ -680,6 +690,12 @@ 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 sync
+Use synchronous HDLC serial encoding instead of asynchronous.
+The device used by pppd with this option must support synchronous
+serial communications. Currently supports Microgate SyncLink adapters
+under Linux.
+.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