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| author | Jouke Witteveen <j.witteveen@gmail.com> | 2014-02-27 13:58:57 +0100 |
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| committer | Jouke Witteveen <j.witteveen@gmail.com> | 2014-02-27 13:58:57 +0100 |
| commit | 3b77f8666f19ca2ed1fc242d05d88706b8261863 (patch) | |
| tree | b059d893ecabac98697fe3b79eeef567e5ce2c0c /docs | |
| parent | f64a2f25d435edd3507e477a25cb4c4e15297794 (diff) | |
| download | netctl-3b77f8666f19ca2ed1fc242d05d88706b8261863.tar.gz netctl-3b77f8666f19ca2ed1fc242d05d88706b8261863.tar.xz | |
Introduce a new PPP connection type
This should at some point take care of most PPP use cases, but
currently is just a frontend to pppoe. The main difference is that the
new connection type keeps track of profiles by their 'dynamic' interface
name. Hence it is not wise to use both pppoe and ppp profiles.
Diffstat (limited to 'docs')
| -rw-r--r-- | docs/netctl.profile.5.txt | 10 |
1 files changed, 10 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/docs/netctl.profile.5.txt b/docs/netctl.profile.5.txt index 2cf0285..649520b 100644 --- a/docs/netctl.profile.5.txt +++ b/docs/netctl.profile.5.txt @@ -44,6 +44,8 @@ AVAILABLE CONNECTION TYPES available. +dummy+:: For dummy interfaces. ++ppp+:: + For PPP connections (currently only PPPoE). +pppoe+:: For PPPoE connections. +mobile_ppp+:: @@ -312,6 +314,14 @@ The name of the dummy interface is sepcified in 'Interface'. Only the *ip options* are understood for connections of the `dummy' type. +OPTIONS FOR `ppp' CONNECTIONS +----------------------------- +This connection type is identical to the `pppoe' type below, with the +ethernet interface specified in 'BindsToInterfaces'. The value of +'Interface' must be of the form `ppp<++n++>', where ++n++ is passed on as +the value of 'PPPUnit'. + + OPTIONS FOR `pppoe' CONNECTIONS ------------------------------- The interface to dial peer-to-peer over ethernet is specified in |