necessary. If no device name is given, or if the name of the terminal
connected to the standard input is given, pppd
will use that terminal, and will not fork to put itself in the
necessary. If no device name is given, or if the name of the terminal
connected to the standard input is given, pppd
will use that terminal, and will not fork to put itself in the
-packets to be sent or received. If neither this option nor the
-\fInoauth\fR option is specified, the default is that pppd will not
-require the peer to authenticate, but will then only allow it to use
+packets to be sent or received. This option is the default if the
+system has a default route. If neither this option nor the
+\fInoauth\fR option is specified, pppd will only allow the peer to use
and as the default name to send to the peer when authenticating itself
to the peer. This option is privileged.
.TP
and as the default name to send to the peer when authenticating itself
to the peer. This option is privileged.
.TP
.B holdoff \fIn
Specifies how many seconds to wait before re-initiating the link after
it terminates. This option only has any effect if the \fIpersist\fR
.B holdoff \fIn
Specifies how many seconds to wait before re-initiating the link after
it terminates. This option only has any effect if the \fIpersist\fR