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

       -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.

       -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.

       -D     Delegate	the allocation of IP addresses to pppd.	 If specified,
	      neither local nor remote address is passed to pppd.

       -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.

       -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
       pppd(8),	       pppoe(8),	pppoe-sniff(8),	       pppoe-relay(8),
       /usr/share/doc/pppoe/README.Debian.gz

4th Berkeley Distribution	  3 July 2000		       PPPOE-SERVER(8)
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