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PPPOE-SERVER(8)						       PPPOE-SERVER(8)

NAME
       pppoe-server - user-space PPPoE server

SYNOPSIS
       pppoe-server [options]

DESCRIPTION
       pppoe-server  is a user-space server for PPPoE (Point-to-Point Protocol
       over Ethernet) for Linux and other UNIX systems.	 pppoe-server works in
       concert with the pppoe client to respond to PPPoE discovery packets and
       set up PPPoE sessions.

OPTIONS
       -F     The -F option causes pppoe-server not to fork and become a  dae‐
	      mon.  The default is to fork and become a daemon.

       -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-server,  but need not have an IP
	      address.	You can supply multiple -I options  if	you  want  the
	      server to respond on more than one interface.

       -X pidfile
	      This  option causes pppoe-server to write its process ID to pid‐
	      file.  Additionally, it keeps the file locked  so	 that  only  a
	      single process may be started for a given pidfile.

       -q /path/to/pppd
	      Specifies	 the  full  path  to the pppd program.	The default is
	      determined at compile time.  One use of this option is to supply
	      a	 wrapper  program  that modifies the arguments passed to pppd.
	      This lets you do things not directly  supported  by  the	server
	      (for example, specify IPv6 addresses.)

       -Q /path/to/pppoe
	      Specifies	 the  full  path to the pppoe program.	The default is
	      determined at compile time.  This option is only relevant if you
	      are not using kernel-mode PPPoE.

       -T timeout
	      This  option  is	passed	directly  to  pppoe;  see pppoe(8) for
	      details.	If you are using kernel-mode PPPoE, this option has no
	      effect.

       -C ac_name
	      Specifies	 which name to report as the access concentrator name.
	      If not supplied, the host name is used.

       -S name
	      Offer a service named name.  Multiple -S options may  be	speci‐
	      fied;  each  one	causes the named service to be advertised in a
	      Service-Name tag in the PADO frame.  The first -S option	speci‐
	      fies  the	 default  service,  and	 is  used  if the PPPoE client
	      requests a Service-Name of length zero.

       -m MSS This option is  passed  directly	to  pppoe;  see	 pppoe(8)  for
	      details.	If you are using kernel-mode PPPoE, this option has no
	      effect.

       -x n   Limit the number of sessions per peer MAC address to  n.	 If  a
	      given  MAC address attempts to create more than n sessions, then
	      its PADI and PADR packets are ignored.  If you set n to  0  (the
	      default), then no limit is imposed on the number of sessions per
	      peer MAC address.

       -s     This option is  passed  directly	to  pppoe;  see	 pppoe(8)  for
	      details.	 In  addition,	it  causes pppd to be invoked with the
	      sync option.

       -L ip  Sets the local IP address.  This is passed to spawned pppd  pro‐
	      cesses.  If not specified, the default is 10.0.0.1.

       -R ip  Sets  the	 starting  remote  IP address.	As sessions are estab‐
	      lished, IP addresses are assigned	 starting  from	 ip.	pppoe-
	      server  automatically  keeps  track of the pool of addresses and
	      passes a valid remote IP address to pppd.	 If not	 specified,  a
	      starting address of 10.67.15.1 is used.

       -N num Allows at most num concurrent PPPoE sessions.  If not specified,
	      the default is 64.

       -O fname
	      This option causes pppoe-server to tell pppd to use  the	option
	      file fname instead of the default /etc/ppp/pppoe-server-options.

       -p fname
	      Reads  the  specified file fname which is a text file consisting
	      of one IP address per line.  These IP addresses will be assigned
	      to  clients.  The number of sessions allowed will equal the num‐
	      ber of addresses found in the file.   The	 -p  option  overrides
	      both -R and -N.

	      In  addition  to containing IP addresses, the pool file can con‐
	      tain lines of the form:

		   a.b.c.d-e

	      which includes all IP addresses from a.b.c.d  to	a.b.c.e.   For
	      example, the line:

		   1.2.3.4-7

	      is equivalent to:

		   1.2.3.4
		   1.2.3.5
		   1.2.3.6
		   1.2.3.7

       -r     Tells  the  PPPoE	 server	 to  randomly permute session numbers.
	      Instead of handing out sessions in order,	 the  session  numbers
	      are assigned in an unpredictable order.

       -u     Tells the server to invoke pppd with the unit option.  Note that
	      this option only works for pppd version 2.4.0 or newer.

       -o offset
	      Instead of numbering PPPoE sessions starting at 1, they will  be
	      numbered	starting at offset+1.  This allows you to run multiple
	      servers on a given machine; just make sure  that	their  session
	      numbers do not overlap.

       -f disc:sess
	      The  -f option sets the Ethernet frame types for PPPoE discovery
	      and session frames.  The types are specified as hexadecimal num‐
	      bers  separated  by  a  colon.   Standard PPPoE uses frame types
	      8863:8864.  You should not use this option unless you are	 abso‐
	      lutely  sure  the	 peer  you  are dealing with uses non-standard
	      frame types.

       -k     The -k option tells the  server  to  use	kernel-mode  PPPoE  on
	      Linux.  This option is available only on Linux kernels 2.4.0 and
	      later, and only if the server was built  with  kernel-mode  sup‐
	      port.

       -i     The  -i option tells the server to completely ignore PADI frames
	      if there are no free session slots.

       -h     The -h option prints a brief usage message and exits.

OPERATION
       pppoe-server listens for incoming PPPoE discovery packets.  When a ses‐
       sion  is	 established, it spawns a pppd process.	 The following options
       are passed to pppd:

       nodetach noaccomp nobsdcom nodeflate nopcomp novj novjccomp
       default-asyncmap

       In addition, the local and remote IP address are set based  on  the  -L
       and  -R options.	 The pty option is supplied along with a pppoe command
       to initiate the PPPoE session.  Finally, additional pppd options can be
       placed  in  the	file  /etc/ppp/pppoe-server-options (which must exist,
       even if it is just empty!)

       Note that pppoe-server is meant mainly for testing PPPoE	 clients.   It
       is not a high-performance server meant for production use.

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

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

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

4th Berkeley Distribution	 21 June 2008		       PPPOE-SERVER(8)
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