adsl-connect interface user [config_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-connect executes the script /etc/ppp/adsl-lost if it exists and is executable.
The shell script adsl-stop causes adsl-connect to break out of its loop, bring the connection down, and exit.
| ETH |
The Ethernet interface connected to the ADSL modem (for example, eth0).
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| USER |
The ADSL user-id (for example, b1xxnxnx@sympatico.ca).
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| PIDFILE | |
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A file in which to write the process-ID of the adsl-connect process
(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 configuration file as an argument to adsl-start and adsl-stop.
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The pppoe home page is http://www.roaringpenguin.com/pppoe/.