PPPOE-START

Section: Maintenance Commands (8) Updated: 21 February 2000 Local index Up

NAME

pppoe-start - Shell script to bring up a PPPoE link

SYNOPSIS

pppoe-start [config_file]

pppoe-start interface user [config_file]

DESCRIPTION

pppoe-start is a shell script which starts 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.

AUTHOR

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

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