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26.\" $FreeBSD$
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28.Dd November 8, 1999
29.Dt PPPOED 8
30.Os
31.Sh NAME
32.Nm pppoed
33.Nd handle incoming PPP over Ethernet connections
34.Sh SYNOPSIS
35.Nm
36.Op Fl Fd\&
37.Op Fl P Ar pidfile
38.Op Fl a Ar name
39.Op Fl e Ar exec | Fl l Ar label
40.Op Fl n Ar ngdebug
41.Op Fl p Ar provider
42.Ar interface
43.Sh DESCRIPTION
44The
45.Nm
46utility listens to the given
47.Ar interface
48for PPP over Ethernet (PPPoE) service request packets, and actions them
49by negotiating a session then invoking a
50.Xr ppp 8
51program.
52The negotiation is implemented by the
53.Dq pppoe
54netgraph node.
55See
56.Xr ng_pppoe 4
57for details.
58.Pp
59The
60.Nm
61utility
62will only offer services to clients requesting services from the given
63.Ar provider ,
64which is taken as an empty name if not provided.
65If a provider name of
66.Dq *
67is given, any PPPoE requests will be offered service.
68.Pp
69The supplied
70.Ar name
71will be given as the access concentrator name when establishing the connection.
72If no
73.Ar name
74is given, the current base hostname is used.
75.Pp
76After receiving a request (PADI) from the PPPoE netgraph node,
77.Nm
78.Xr fork 2 Ns s
79a child process and returns to service further requests.
80The child process offers service
81(using
82.Ar name )
83and waits for a
84.Dv SUCCESS
85indication from the PPPoE node.
86On receipt of the
87.Dv SUCCESS
88indication,
89.Nm
90will execute
91.Pp
92.D1 Ic exec Pa /usr/sbin/ppp Fl direct Ar label
93.Pp
94as a shell sub-process.
95If
96.Ar label
97has not been specified, it defaults to
98.Ar provider .
99It is possible to specify another command using the
100.Ar exec
101argument.
102This is mandatory if
103.Ar provider
104and
105.Ar label
106are not given.
107The child process will have standard input and standard output
108attached to the same
109.Xr netgraph 4
110data socket
111(see
112.Xr ng_socket 4 )
113when started.
114.Pp
115The environment variables
116.Ev HISMACADDR
117and
118.Ev ACNAME
119are made available to the child process and are set to the MAC address of
120the peer and the name of the AC respectively.
121.Pp
122Upon invocation,
123.Nm
124will attach a
125.Dq pppoe
126netgraph node to the relevant
127.Dq ether
128node using
129.Dq Ar interface Ns \&:
130as the node name, and then connect that
131.Dq pppoe
132node to a local
133.Dq socket
134node.
135If the
136.Fl F
137option has not been given,
138.Nm
139will then go into the background and disassociate itself from the controlling
140terminal.
141When the
142.Fl F
143option is given,
144.Nm
145stays in the foreground.
146.Pp
147If the
148.Fl d
149option is given, additional diagnostics are provided (see the
150.Sx DIAGNOSTICS
151section below).
152If the
153.Fl n
154option is given,
155.Fn NgSetDebug
156is called with an argument of
157.Ar ngdebug .
158.Pp
159If
160.Ar pidfile
161is given,
162.Nm
163will write its process ID to this file on startup.
164.Sh DIAGNOSTICS
165After creating the necessary
166.Xr netgraph 4
167nodes as described above,
168.Nm
169uses
170.Xr syslogd 8
171to report all incoming connections.
172If the
173.Fl d
174option is given,
175.Nm
176will report on the child processes creation of a new netgraph socket, its
177service offer and the invocation of the
178.Xr ppp 8
179program.
180If the
181.Fl n
182option is given, netgraph diagnostic messages are also redirected to
183.Xr syslogd 8 .
184.Pp
185It is sometimes useful to add the following to
186.Pa /etc/syslog.conf :
187.Bd -literal -offset indent
188!pppoed
189*.*				/var/log/pppoed.log
190.Ed
191.Pp
192and the following to
193.Pa /etc/newsyslog.conf :
194.Pp
195.Dl "/var/log/pppoed.log			640  3	   100	*     Z"
196.Sh SEE ALSO
197.Xr NgSetDebug 3 ,
198.Xr netgraph 4 ,
199.Xr ng_ether 4 ,
200.Xr ng_pppoe 4 ,
201.Xr ng_socket 4 ,
202.Xr syslog.conf 5 ,
203.Xr ppp 8 ,
204.Xr syslogd 8
205.Sh HISTORY
206The
207.Nm
208utility was written by
209.An Brian Somers Aq brian@Awfulhak.org
210and first appeared in
211.Fx 3.4 .
212.Sh BUGS
213If another netgraph node is using the given interface,
214.Nm
215will fail to start.
216This is because
217.Xr netgraph 4
218does not currently allow node chaining.
219This may change in the future.
220