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NAME

pppoec — PPPoE (Point to Point Protocol over Ethernet) client

SYNOPSIS

pppoec -i interface-name

pppoec -i interface-name [-c config-file] [-d debug-level] [-l log-file] [-r retry-number]

DESCRIPTION

pppoec discovers an access concentrator that is willing to offer services to the client. It obtains a unique session-id from the selected access concentrator. pppoec then forks a pppd daemon which performs the session phase functionalities of PPPoE as mentioned in RFC 2516.

Options

pppoec supports the following options:

-c config-file

Specify the configuration file with absolute path to be used by pppoec. The default configuration file is /etc/ppp/pppoec.conf.

-d debug-level

Specify the debug level at which logging has to be enabled. The three debug levels are:

LOG_ERROR

Logs all error messages. To log these messages, type -d 0 on the command line.

LOG_WARN

Logs all warning messages. To log these messages, type -d 1 on the command line.

LOG_DEBUG

Logs function level debug messages. To log these messages, type -d 2 on the command line.

-i interface-name

Specify the name of the network interface (e.g., lan0) to be used for the PPPoE session.

-l log-file

Specify the log file with absolute path, to which pppoec must log all messages. The default log file is /var/adm/pppoec.log.

-r retry-number

Specify the frequency of PADI (PPPoE Active Discovery Initiation) or PADR (PPPoE Active Discovery Request) packet retransmission when an access concentrator does not respond to the client's request. The default value is 3.

EXAMPLES

An example usage of the pppoec command is as follows:

/usr/bin/pppoec -i lan4 -c /tmp/ppp/pppoec.conf -d 2

WARNINGS

Note that, you cannot run the client daemon without /etc/ppp/pppoec.conf file. See pppoec.conf(4) for more information. Also, do not use SIGKILL to terminate pppoec. Instead, use SIGTERM to kill the pppoec client daemon.

AUTHOR

pppoec was developed by Hewlett-Packard.

FILES

pppoesd

PPPoE server daemon

pppoerd

PPPoE relay

pppoec.conf

PPPoE client configuration file

pppd

PPP daemon

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