adsl-connect

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  inter-
       face and user-name settings in the configuration 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 connection.  If the connection ever drops, a message is logged to
       syslog, and adsl-connect re-establishes the connection.   In  addition,
       each time the connection is dropped or cannot be established, adsl-con-
       nect executes the script /etc/ppp/adsl-lost if it exists  and  is  exe-
       cutable.


       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@sympatico.ca).


       PIDFILE
              A file in which to write the process-ID of the adsl-connect pro-
              cess  (for  example,  /var/run/pppoe.pid).  Two additional files
              ($PIDFILE.pppd and $PIDFILE.pppoe) hold the process-ID's of  the
              pppd and pppoe processes, respectively.


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


AUTHOR
       adsl-connect was written by David F. Skoll <dfs@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)