adsl-connect - phpMan

ADSL-CONNECT(8)                                                ADSL-CONNECT(8)



NAME
       adsl-connect - Shell script to manage a PPPoE link


SYNOPSIS
       adsl-connect [config_file]

       adsl-connect interface user [config_file]



DESCRIPTION
       adsl-connect  is  a shell script which manages an ADSL connection using the Roaring
       Penguin user-space PPPoE  client.   If  you  omit  config_file,  the  default  file
       /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-ppp0  is  used.   If  you supply interface and
       user, then they override the Ethernet interface and user-name settings in the  con-
       figuration file.

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

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


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


TECHNICAL DETAILS
       adsl-connect uses the following shell variables from the configuration file:


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


       USER   The ADSL user-id (for example, b1xxnxnx AT sympatico.ca).


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


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


AUTHOR
       adsl-connect was written by David F. Skoll <dfs AT roaringpenguin.com>.

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


SEE ALSO
       pppoe(8), adsl-start(8), adsl-stop(8), pppd(8), pppoe.conf(5), adsl-setup(8), adsl-
       status(8), pppoe-sniff(8), pppoe-server(8), pppoe-relay(8)




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

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