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 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.
+.TP
.B disconnect \fIscript
Execute the command specified by \fIscript\fR, by passing it to a
shell, after
.TP
.B demand
Initiate the link only on demand, i.e. when data traffic is present.
-With this option, the remote IP address must be specified by the user
-on the command line or in an options file. Pppd will initially
+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.
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
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
wishes to prevent users from creating default routes with pppd
can do so by placing this option in the /etc/ppp/options file.
.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.
.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 not
-bring up the link for IP traffic. With this option, if the peer does
+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
.TP
.B unit \fInum
Sets the ppp unit number (for a ppp0 or ppp1 etc interface name) for outbound
-connections.
+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
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
.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 rp-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 rp_pppoe_service \fIname
+Connect to specified PPPoE service name.
+.TP
+.B rp_pppoe_ac \fIname
+Connect to specified PPPoE access concentrator name.
+.TP
+.B rp_pppoe_sess \fIsessid\fP:\fImacaddr
+Attach to existing PPPoE session.
+.TP
+.B rp_pppoe_verbose \fIn
+Be verbose about discovered access concentrators.
+.TP
+.B pppoe-mac \fImacaddr
+Connect to specified MAC address.
+.TP
+.B 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.
+.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
.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 (\\) quotes the following character.
+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.
.br
"name:" "^Umyuserid"
.br
-"word:" "\\qmypassword"
+"word:" "\eqmypassword"
.br
-"ispts" "\\q^Uppp"
+"ispts" "\eq^Uppp"
.br
"~\-^Uppp\-~"
.LP
.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).
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