pppd.8: Document netmask option

[ppp.git] / pppd / pppd.8

diff --git a/pppd/pppd.8 b/pppd/pppd.8
index 7be3e8074fe2502a9b7efc23bf5fcc0e535298c6..376504188f4750d4df52ce26a0cf41dbe14ff1b8 100644 (file)
--- a/pppd/pppd.8
+++ b/pppd/pppd.8
@@ -1,12 +1,11 @@
-.\" manual page [] for pppd 2.4
-.\" $Id: pppd.8,v 1.90 2008/03/26 12:09:40 paulus Exp $
+.\" manual page [] for pppd 2.5.x
 .\" SH section heading
 .\" SS subsection heading
 .\" LP paragraph
 .\" IP indented paragraph
 .\" TP hanging label
 .\" 
-.\" Copyright (c) 1993-2003 Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
+.\" Copyright (c) 1993-2003 Paul Mackerras <paulus@ozlabs.org>
 .\"
 .\" Permission to use, copy, modify, and distribute this software for any
 .\" purpose with or without fee is hereby granted, provided that the above
@@ -760,6 +759,13 @@ will be used as the name to send to the peer when authenticating the
 local system to the peer.  (Note that pppd does not append the domain
 name to \fIname\fR.)
 .TP
+.B netmask \fImask
+Set the IPV4 network mask on the PPP interface to the given
+\fImask\fR, which can be given in dotted-quad notation or as a single
+hexadecimal number preceded by 0x.  This option is not normally
+needed because the PPP interface is a point-to-point connection, but
+in some specialized circumstances it can be useful.
+.TP
 .B noaccomp
 Disable Address/Control compression in both directions (send and
 receive).
@@ -2046,7 +2052,7 @@ of a fatal decompression error.  (Fatal decompression errors generally
 indicate a bug in one or other implementation.)
 
 .SH AUTHORS
-Paul Mackerras (paulus@samba.org), based on earlier work by
+Paul Mackerras (paulus@ozlabs.org), based on earlier work by
 Drew Perkins,
 Brad Clements,
 Karl Fox,
@@ -2121,7 +2127,7 @@ are met:
     at Carnegie Mellon University (http://www.cmu.edu/computing/)."
 .br
    "This product includes software developed by Paul Mackerras
-    <paulus@samba.org>".
+    <paulus@ozlabs.org>".
 .br
    "This product includes software developed by Pedro Roque Marques
     <pedro_m@yahoo.com>".