From: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Date: Wed, 26 Mar 2008 12:09:40 +0000 (+0000)
Subject: Describe the noremoteip option.
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Describe the noremoteip option.
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diff --git a/pppd/pppd.8 b/pppd/pppd.8
index 4a37564..8ea8200 100644
--- a/pppd/pppd.8
+++ b/pppd/pppd.8
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 .\" manual page [] for pppd 2.4
-.\" $Id: pppd.8,v 1.89 2007/06/19 02:08:35 carlsonj Exp $
+.\" $Id: pppd.8,v 1.90 2008/03/26 12:09:40 paulus Exp $
 .\" SH section heading
 .\" SS subsection heading
 .\" LP paragraph
@@ -817,6 +817,17 @@ Disable the \fIproxyarp\fR option.  The system administrator who
 wishes to prevent users from creating proxy ARP entries with pppd can
 do so by placing this option in the /etc/ppp/options file.
 .TP
+.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
+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
+device routes, but the peer itself cannot be addressed directly for IP
+traffic.
+.TP
 .B notty
 Normally, pppd requires a terminal device.  With this option, pppd
 will allocate itself a pseudo-tty master/slave pair and use the slave