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PPPOE(8) PPPOE(8)
NAME
pppoe - user-space PPPoE client.
SYNOPSIS
pppd pty â€â€™pppoe [pppoe_options]â€â€™ [pppd_options]
pppoe -A [pppoe_options]
DESCRIPTION
pppoe is a user-space client for PPPoE (Point-to-Point Protocol over Ethernet) for
Linux and other UNIX systems. pppoe works in concert with the pppd PPP daemon to
provide a PPP connection over Ethernet, as is used by many ADSL service providers.
OPTIONS
-I interface
The -I option specifies the Ethernet interface to use. Under Linux, it is
typically eth0 or eth1. The interface should be "up" before you start
pppoe, but should not be configured to have an IP address.
-T timeout
The -T option causes pppoe to exit if no session traffic is detected for
timeout seconds. I recommend that you use this option as an extra safety
measure, but if you do, you should make sure that PPP generates enough traf-
fic so the timeout will normally not be triggered. The best way to do this
is to use the lcp-echo-interval option to pppd. You should set the PPPoE
timeout to be about four times the LCP echo interval.
-D file_name
The -D option causes every packet to be dumped to the specified file_name.
This is intended for debugging only; it produces huge amounts of output and
greatly reduces performance.
-V The -V option causes pppoe to print its version number and exit.
-A The -A option causes pppoe to send a PADI packet and then print the names of
access concentrators in each PADO packet it receives. Do not use this
option in conjunction with pppd; the -A option is meant to be used interac-
tively to give interesting information about the access concentrator.
-S service_name
Specifies the desired service name. pppoe will only initiate sessions with
access concentrators which can provide the specified service. In most
cases, you should not specify this option. Use it only if you know that
there are multiple access concentrators or know that you need a specific
service name.
-C ac_name
Specifies the desired access concentrator name. pppoe will only initiate
sessions with the specified access concentrator. In most cases, you should
not specify this option. Use it only if you know that there are multiple
access concentrators. If both the -S and -C options are specified, they
must both match for pppoe to initiate a session.
-U Causes pppoe to use the Host-Uniq tag in its discovery packets. This lets
you run multiple pppoe daemons without having their discovery packets
interfere with one another. You must supply this option to all pppoe dae-
mons if you intend to run multiple daemons simultaneously.
-s Causes pppoe to use synchronous PPP encapsulation. If you use this option,
then you must use the sync option with pppd. You are encouraged to use this
option if it works, because it greatly reduces the CPU overhead of pppoe.
However, it MAY be unreliable on slow machines -- there is a race condition
between pppd writing data and pppoe reading it. For this reason, the
default setting is asynchronous. If you encounter bugs or crashes with Syn-
chronous PPP, turn it off -- don’t e-mail me for support!
-m MSS Causes pppoe to clamp the TCP maximum segment size at the specified value.
Because of PPPoE overhead, the maximum segment size for PPPoE is smaller
than for normal Ethernet encapsulation. This could cause problems for
machines on a LAN behind a gateway using PPPoE. If you have a LAN behind a
gateway, and the gateway connects to the Internet using PPPoE, you are
strongly recommended to use a -m 1412 option. This avoids having to set the
MTU on all the hosts on the LAN.
-p file
Causes pppoe to write its process-ID to the specified file. This can be
used to locate and kill pppoe processes.
-e sess:mac
Causes pppoe to skip the discovery phase and move directly to the session
phase. The session is given by sess and the MAC address of the peer by mac.
This mode is not meant for normal use; it is designed only for pppoe-
server(8).
-n Causes pppoe not to open a discovery socket. This mode is not meant for
normal use; it is designed only for pppoe-server(8).
-k Causes pppoe to terminate an existing session by sending a PADT frame, and
then exit. You must use the -e option in conjunction with this option to
specify the session to kill. This may be useful for killing sessions when a
buggy peer does not realize the session has ended.
-d Causes pppoe to perform discovery and then exit, after printing session
information to standard output. The session information is printed in
exactly the format expected by the -e option. This option lets you initiate
a PPPoE discovery, perform some other work, and then start the actual PPP
session. Be careful; if you use this option in a loop, you can create many
sessions, which may annoy your peer.
-f disc:sess
The -f option sets the Ethernet frame types for PPPoE discovery and session
frames. The types are specified as hexadecimal numbers separated by a
colon. Standard PPPoE uses frame types 8863:8864. You should not use this
option unless you are absolutely sure the peer you are dealing with uses
non-standard frame types. If your ISP uses non-standard frame types, com-
plain!
-h The -h option causes pppoe to print usage information and exit.
PPPOE BACKGROUND
PPPoE (Point-to-Point Protocol over Ethernet) is described in RFC 2516 and is a
protocol which allows the session abstraction to be maintained over bridged
Ethernet networks.
PPPoE works by encapsulating PPP frames in Ethernet frames. The protocol has two
distinct stages: The discovery and the session stage.
In the discovery stage, the host broadcasts a special PADI (PPPoE Active Discovery
Initiation) frame to discover any access concentrators. The access concentrators
(typically, only one access concentrator) reply with PADO (PPPoE Active Discovery
Offer) packets, announcing their presence and the services they offer. The host
picks one of the access concentrators and transmits a PADR (PPPoE Active Discovery
Request) packet, asking for a session. The access concentrator replies with a PADS
(PPPoE Active Discovery Session-Confirmation) packet. The protocol then moves to
the session stage.
In the session stage, the host and access concentrator exchange PPP frames embedded
in Ethernet frames. The normal Ethernet MTU is 1500 bytes, but the PPPoE overhead
plus two bytes of overhead for the encapsulated PPP frame mean that the MTU of the
PPP interface is at most 1492 bytes. This causes all kinds of problems if you are
using a Linux machine as a firewall and interfaces behind the firewall have an MTU
greater than 1492. In fact, to be safe, I recommend setting the MTU of machines
behind the firewall to 1412, to allow for worst-case TCP and IP options in their
respective headers.
Normally, PPP uses the Link Control Protocol (LCP) to shut down a PPP link. How-
ever, the PPPoE specification allows the link to be shut down with a special PADT
(PPPoE Active Discovery Terminate) packet. This client recognizes this packet and
will correctly terminate if a terminate request is received for the PPP session.
DESIGN GOALS
My design goals for this PPPoE client were as follows, in descending order of
importance:
o It must work.
o It must be a user-space program and not a kernel patch.
o The code must be easy to read and maintain.
o It must be fully compliant with RFC 2516, the proposed PPPoE standard.
o It must never hang up forever -- if the connection is broken, it must detect
this and exit, allowing a wrapper script to restart the connection.
o It must be fairly efficient.
I believe I have achieved all of these goals, but (of course) am open to sugges-
tions, patches and ideas. See my home page, http://www.roaringpenguin.com, for
contact information.
NOTES
For best results, you must give pppd an mtu option of 1492. I have observed prob-
lems with excessively-large frames unless I set this option. Also, if pppoe is
running on a firewall machine, all machines behind the firewall should have MTU’s
of 1412.
If you have problems, check your system logs. pppoe logs interesting things to
syslog. You may have to turn on logging of debug-level messages for complete diag-
nosis.
AUTHORS
pppoe was written by David F. Skoll <dfs AT roaringpenguin.com>, with much inspiration
from an earlier version by Luke Stras.
The pppoe home page is http://www.roaringpenguin.com/pppoe/.
SEE ALSO
adsl-start(8), adsl-stop(8), adsl-connect(8), pppd(8), pppoe.conf(5), adsl-
setup(8), adsl-status(8), pppoe-sniff(8), pppoe-server(8), pppoe-relay(8)
4th Berkeley Distribution 3 July 2000 PPPOE(8)
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