.\" LIC: GPL .TH PPPOE-CONNECT 8 "21 February 2000" .UC 4 .SH NAME pppoe-connect \- Shell script to manage a PPPoE link .SH SYNOPSIS .B pppoe-connect \fR[\fIconfig_file\fR] .P .B pppoe-connect \fR\fIinterface user\fR [\fIconfig_file\fR] .SH DESCRIPTION \fBpppoe-connect\fR is a shell script which manages a PPPoE connection using the Roaring Penguin user-space PPPoE client. If you omit \fIconfig_file\fR, the default file \fB/etc/ppp/pppoe.conf\fR is used. If you supply \fIinterface\fR and \fIuser\fR, then they override the Ethernet interface and user-name settings in the configuration file. .P Note that normally, you should \fInot\fR invoke \fBpppoe-connect\fR directly. Instead, use \fBpppoe-start\fR to bring up the PPPoE connection. .P \fBpppoe-connect\fR first reads a configuration file. It then brings up a PPPoE connection. If the connection ever drops, a message is logged to syslog, and \fBpppoe-connect\fR re-establishes the connection. In addition, each time the connection is dropped or cannot be established, \fBpppoe-connect\fR executes the script \fB/etc/ppp/pppoe-lost\fR if it exists and is executable. .P The shell script \fBpppoe-stop\fR causes \fBpppoe-connect\fR to break out of its loop, bring the connection down, and exit. .SH TECHNICAL DETAILS \fBpppoe-connect\fR uses the following shell variables from the configuration file: .TP .B ETH The Ethernet interface connected to the DSL modem (for example, eth0). .TP .B USER The PPPoE user-id (for example, b1xxnxnx@sympatico.ca). .TP .B PIDFILE A file in which to write the process-ID of the pppoe-connect process (for example, \fB/var/run/pppoe.pid\fR). Two additional files ($PIDFILE.pppd and $PIDFILE.pppoe) hold the process-ID's of the \fBpppd\fR and \fBpppoe\fR processes, respectively. .P By using different configuration files with different PIDFILE settings, you can manage multiple PPPoE connections. Just specify the configuration file as an argument to \fBpppoe-start\fR and \fBpppoe-stop\fR. .SH AUTHOR \fBpppoe-connect\fR was written by David F. Skoll . The \fBpppoe\fR home page is \fIhttp://www.roaringpenguin.com/pppoe/\fR. .SH SEE ALSO pppoe(8), pppoe-start(8), pppoe-stop(8), pppd(8), pppoe.conf(5), pppoe-setup(8), pppoe-status(8), pppoe-sniff(8), pppoe-server(8), pppoe-relay(8)
