NAME

       pppoe-connect - Shell script to manage a PPPoE link

SYNOPSIS

       pppoe-connect [config_file]

       pppoe-connect interface user [config_file]

DESCRIPTION

       pppoe-connect  is  a  shell  script which manages a PPPoE connection using the Roaring Penguin user-space
       PPPoE client.  If you omit config_file, the default file /etc/ppp/pppoe.conf  is  used.   If  you  supply
       interface and user, then they override the Ethernet interface and user-name settings in the configuration
       file.

       Note  that  normally, you should not invoke pppoe-connect directly.  Instead, use pppoe-start to bring up
       the PPPoE connection.

       pppoe-connect first reads a configuration file.  It then brings up a PPPoE connection.  If the connection
       ever drops, a message is logged to syslog, and pppoe-connect re-establishes the connection.  In addition,
       each time the connection  is  dropped  or  cannot  be  established,  pppoe-connect  executes  the  script
       /etc/ppp/pppoe-lost if it exists and is executable.

       The shell script pppoe-stop causes pppoe-connect to break out of its loop, bring the connection down, and
       exit.

TECHNICAL DETAILS

       pppoe-connect uses the following shell variables from the configuration file:

       ETH    The Ethernet interface connected to the DSL modem (for example, eth0).

       USER   The PPPoE user-id (for example, b1xxnxnx@sympatico.ca).

       PIDFILE
              A   file   in   which  to  write  the  process-ID  of  the  pppoe-connect  process  (for  example,
              /var/run/pppoe.pid).  Two additional files ($PIDFILE.pppd and $PIDFILE.pppoe)  hold  the  process-
              ID's of the pppd and pppoe processes, respectively.

       By  using  different  configuration  files with different PIDFILE settings, you can manage multiple PPPoE
       connections.  Just specify the configuration file as an argument to pppoe-start and pppoe-stop.

AUTHOR

       pppoe-connect was written by David F. Skoll <dfs@roaringpenguin.com>.

       The pppoe home page is http://www.roaringpenguin.com/pppoe/.

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)

4th Berkeley Distribution                       21 February 2000                                PPPOE-CONNECT(8)