NAME¶
pppoeconf — configures a PPPoE (ADSL) connection
SYNOPSIS¶
pppoeconf [
-nox] [iface]
DESCRIPTION¶
The
pppoeconf program is user-friendly dialog based setup tool for
pppd (and
pppoe if needed). It will look for existing ethernet
cards and look for ADSL hardware connected to one of them. You can add an
interface name
iface to force pppoeconf to use it. Then it will get
some login info and do some minor modifications to make working settings. Note
that you can use ESC key to exit program when you wan.
OPTIONS¶
- -nox
- Force ncurses use.
FILES¶
/etc/ppp/peers/dsl-provider is pppd options file for your dsl provider.
/etc/ppp/pap-secrets and
/etc/ppp/chap-secrets are described in
pppd documentation. pppoeconf may add lines to theses files.
/etc/ppp/ip-up.d/0clampmss and
/etc/ppp/ip-down.d/0clampmss are
used to clamp MSS if needed.
/etc/network/interfaces is network interface file for your system.
SEE ALSO¶
pppd(8),
interfaces(5),
pon(1) and
pppoe(8).
AUTHOR¶
This manual page was originally written by Eduard Bloch (blade@debian.org) and
now maintained by Gregory Colpart (reg@evolix.fr) for the
Debian
GNU/Linux system (but may be used by others). This document is free
software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU
General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either
version 2 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.
On Debian systems, the complete text of the GNU General Public License can be
found in /usr/share/common-licenses/GPL.