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diff --git a/pppd/pppd.8 b/pppd/pppd.8
index baf3da5..e468994 100644
--- a/pppd/pppd.8
+++ b/pppd/pppd.8
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 .\" manual page [] for pppd 2.4
-.\" $Id: pppd.8,v 1.56 2001/03/09 01:01:26 paulus Exp $
+.\" $Id: pppd.8,v 1.59 2002/01/11 18:04:37 etbe Exp $
 .\" SH section heading
 .\" SS subsection heading
 .\" LP paragraph
@@ -457,7 +457,11 @@ default value is 3.
 .TP
 .B kdebug \fIn
 Enable debugging code in the kernel-level PPP driver.  The argument
-\fIn\fR is a number which is the sum of the following values: 1 to
+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
@@ -786,11 +790,15 @@ the kernel and pppd were compiled with PPP_FILTER defined.
 .TP
 .B persist
 Do not exit after a connection is terminated; instead try to reopen
-the connection.
+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.
+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