pppoectl.8

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.\" From: spppcontrol.1,v 1.1.1.1 1997/10/11 11:30:30 joerg Exp
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.\" $Id: pppoectl.8,v 1.24 2005/02/19 18:26:09 christos Exp $
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.Dd October 2, 2003
.Os
.Dt PPPOECTL 8
.Sh NAME
.Nm pppoectl ,
.Nm ipppctl
.Nd "display or set parameters for an pppoe or isdn ppp (ippp) interface"
.Sh SYNOPSIS
.Nm pppoectl
.Op Fl v
.Ar ifname
.Op Ar parameter Ns Op \&= Ns Ar value
.Op Ar ...
.Pp
.Nm ipppctl
.Op Fl v
.Ar ifname
.Op Ar parameter Ns Op \&= Ns Ar value
.Op Ar ...
.Pp
.Nm pppoectl
.Fl e Ar ethernet-ifname
.Op Fl s Ar service-name
.Op Fl a Ar access-concentrator-name
.Op Fl d
.Op Fl n Ar 1 \&| 2
.Ar ifname
.Pp
.Nm pppoectl
.Fl f Ar config-file
.Ar ifname
.Op Ar ...
.Sh DESCRIPTION
There are two basic modes of operation: configuring security related
parameters and attaching a PPPoE interface to its ethernet interface,
optionally passing in additional parameters for the PPPoE encapsulation.
.Pp
The later usage is indicated by the presence of the
.Fl e
option, which takes the name of the ethernet interface as its argument.
.Pp
.Bl -tag -width indent
.It Fl e
specifies the ethernet interface used to communicate with the
access concentrator (typically via a DSL modem).
.It Fl a
specifies the name of the access concentrator.
.It Fl s
specifies the name of the service connected to.
.It Fl d
dump the current connection state information (this parameter is typically
used alone, for informational purposes, not during interface configuration).
.It Fl n Ar 1 \&| 2
print the IP address of the primary or secondary DNS name server for this
PPP connection.
This is only available if DNS query is enabled, see
.Ar query-dns .
.It Fl f
parse
.Ar config-file
for
.Ar parameter Ns Op \&= Ns Ar value
pairs, one per line, as if they had been specified on the command line.
This allows the password to be not passed as a command line argument.
Unless escaped by \e, comments starting with # to the end of the current line
are ignored.
.El
.Pp
Typically, not both the access concentrator name and the service name are
specified.
.Pp
The
.Xr ippp 4
or the
.Xr pppoe 4
drivers require a number of additional arguments or optional
parameters besides the settings that can be adjusted with
.Xr ifconfig 8 .
These are things like authentication protocol parameters, but also
other tunable configuration variables.
The
.Nm
utility can be used to display the current settings, or adjust these
parameters as required.
.Pp
For whatever intent
.Nm
is being called, at least the parameter
.Ar ifname
needs to be specified, naming the interface for which the settings
are to be performed or displayed.
Use
.Xr ifconfig 8
or
.Xr netstat 1
to see which interfaces are available.
.Pp
If no other parameter is given,
.Nm
will just list the current settings for
.Ar ifname
and exit.
The reported settings include the current PPP phase the
interface is in, which can be one of the names
.Em dead ,
.Em establish ,
.Em authenticate ,
.Em network ,
or
.Em terminate .
If an authentication protocol is configured for the interface, the
name of the protocol to be used, as well as the system name to be used
or expected will be displayed, plus any possible options to the
authentication protocol if applicable.
Note that the authentication
secrets (sometimes also called
.Em keys )
are not being returned by the underlying system call, and are thus not
displayed.
.Pp
If any additional parameter is supplied, superuser privileges are
required, and the command works in
.Ql set
mode.
This is normally done quietly, unless the option
.Fl v
is also enabled, which will cause a final printout of the settings as
described above once all other actions have been taken.
Use of this mode will be rejected if the interface is currently in any
other phase than
.Em dead .
Note that you can force an interface into
.Em dead
phase by calling
.Xr ifconfig 8
with the parameter
.Ql down .
.Pp
The currently supported parameters include:
.Bl -tag -width xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
.It Ar authproto Ns \&= Ns Em protoname
Set both his and my authentication protocol to
.Em protoname .
The protocol name can be one of
.Ql chap ,
.Ql pap ,
or
.Ql none .
In the latter case, the use of an authentication protocol will be
turned off for the named interface.
This has the side-effect of
clearing the other authentication-related parameters for this
interface as well (i.
e., system name and authentication secret will
be forgotten).
.It Ar myauthproto Ns \&= Ns Em protoname
Same as above, but only for my end of the link.
I.e., this is the protocol when remote is authenticator,
and I am the peer required to authenticate.
.It Ar hisauthproto Ns \&= Ns Em protoname
Same as above, but only for his end of the link.
.It Ar myauthname Ns \&= Ns Em name
Set my system name for the authentication protocol.
.It Ar hisauthname Ns \&= Ns Em name
Set his system name for the authentication protocol.
For CHAP, this will only be used as a hint, causing
a warning message if remote did supply a different name.
For PAP, it's the name remote must use to
authenticate himself (in connection with his secret).
.It Ar myauthsecret Ns \&= Ns Em secret
Set my secret (key, password) for use in the authentication phase.
For CHAP, this will be used to compute the response hash value, based
on remote's challenge.
For PAP, it will be transmitted as plaintext
together with the system name.
Don't forget to quote the secrets from
the shell if they contain shell metacharacters (or whitespace).
.It Ar myauthkey Ns \&= Ns Em secret
Same as above.
.It Ar hisauthsecret Ns \&= Ns Em secret
Same as above, to be used if we are authenticator and the remote peer
needs to authenticate.
.It Ar hisauthkey Ns \&= Ns Em secret
Same as above.
.It Ar callin
Require remote to authenticate himself only when he's calling in, but
not when we are caller.
This is required for some peers that do not
implement the authentication protocols symmetrically (like Ascend
routers, for example).
.It Ar always
The opposite of
.Ar callin .
Require remote to always authenticate, regardless of which side is
placing the call.
This is the default, and will not be explicitly displayed in
.Ql list
mode.
.It Ar norechallenge
Only meaningful with CHAP.
Do not re-challenge peer once the initial
CHAP handshake was successful.
Used to work around broken peer implementations that can't grok
being re-challenged once the connection is up.
.It Ar rechallenge
With CHAP, send re-challenges at random intervals while the connection
is in network phase.
(The intervals are currently in the range of 300
through approximately 800 seconds.)
This is the default, and will not be explicitly displayed in
.Ql list
mode.
.It Ar idle-timeout Ns \&= Ns Em idle-seconds
For services that are charged by connection time the interface can optionally
disconnect after a configured idle time.
If set to 0, this feature is disabled.
Note: for ISDN devices, it is preferable to use the
.Xr isdnd 8
based timeout mechanism, as isdnd can predict the next charging unit for
ISDN connections and optimize the timeout with this information.
.It Ar lcp-timeout Ns \&= Ns Em timeout-value
Allows to change the value of the LCP timeout.
The default value of the LCP timeout is currently set to 1 second.
The timeout-value must be specified in milliseconds.
.It Ar max-noreceive Ns \&= Ns Em sec
Sets the number of seconds after last reception of data from the peer before
the line state is probed by sending LCP echo requests.
The
.Em sec
interval is not used verbatim, the first echo request might be delayed upto
10 seconds after the configured interval.
.It Ar max-alive-missed Ns \&= Ns Em count
Sets the number of unanswered LCP echo requests that we will tolerate before
considering a connection to be dead.
LCP echo requests are sent in 10 seconds interval after the configured
.Em max-noreceive
interval has passed with no data received from the peer.
.It Ar max-auth-failure Ns \&= Ns Em count
Since some ISPs disable accounts after too many unsuccessful authentication
attempts, there is a maximum number of authentication failures before we will
stop retrying without manual intervention.
Manual intervention is either changing the authentication data
(name, password) or setting the maximum retry count.
If
.Em count
is set to
.Em 0
this feature is disabled.
.It Ar clear-auth-failure
If an authentication failure has been caused by remote problems and you want
to retry connecting using unchanged local settings, this command can be used
to reset the failure count to zero.
.It Ar query-dns Ns \&= Ns Em flags
During PPP protocol negotiation we can query the peer
for addresses of two name servers.
If
.Ar flags
is
.Em 1
only the first server address will be requested, if
.Ar flags
is
.Em 2
the second will be requested.
Setting
.Ar flags
to
.Em 3
queries both.
.Pp
The result of the negotiation can be retrieved with the
.Fl n
option.
.El
.Sh EXAMPLES
.Bd -literal
# ipppctl ippp0
ippp0:	phase=dead
	myauthproto=chap myauthname="uriah"
	hisauthproto=chap hisauthname="ifb-gw" norechallenge
	lcp timeout: 3.000 s
.Ed
.Pp
Display the settings for ippp0.
The interface is currently in
.Em dead
phase, i.e. the LCP layer is down, and no traffic is possible.
Both ends of the connection use the CHAP protocol,
my end tells remote the system name
.Ql uriah ,
and remote is expected to authenticate by the name
.Ql ifb-gw .
Once the initial CHAP handshake was successful, no further CHAP
challenges will be transmitted.
There are supposedly some known CHAP
secrets for both ends of the link which are not being shown.
.Pp
.Bd -literal
# ipppctl ippp0 \e
	authproto=chap \e
	myauthname=uriah myauthsecret='some secret' \e
	hisauthname=ifb-gw hisauthsecret='another' \e
	norechallenge
.Ed
.Pp
A possible call to
.Nm
that could have been used to bring the interface into the state shown
by the previous example.
.Pp
The following example is the complete sequence of commands to bring
a PPPoE connection up:
.Bd -literal
# Need ethernet interface UP (or it won't send any packets)
ifconfig ne0 up

# Let pppoe0 use ne0 as its ethernet interface
pppoectl -e ne0 pppoe0

# Configure authentication
pppoectl pppoe0 \\
  myauthproto=pap \\
  myauthname=XXXXX \\
  myauthsecret=YYYYY \\
  hisauthproto=none

# Configure the pppoe0 interface itself.  These addresses are magic,
# meaning we don't care about either address and let the remote
# ppp choose them.
ifconfig pppoe0 0.0.0.0 0.0.0.1 netmask 0xffffffff up
.Ed
.Sh SEE ALSO
.Xr netstat 1 ,
.Xr ippp 4 ,
.Xr pppoe 4 ,
.Xr ifconfig 8 ,
.Xr ifwatchd 8
.Rs
.%A B. Lloyd
.%A W. Simpson
.%T "PPP Authentication Protocols"
.%O RFC 1334
.Re
.Rs
.%A W. Simpson, Editor
.%T "The Point-to-Point Protocol (PPP)"
.%O RFC 1661
.Re
.Rs
.%A W. Simpson
.%T "PPP Challenge Handshake Authentication Protocol (CHAP)"
.%O RFC 1994
.Re
.Rs
.%A L. Mamakos
.%A K. Lidl
.%A J. Evarts
.%A D. Carrel
.%A D. Simone
.%A R. Wheeler
.%T "A Method for Transmitting PPP Over Ethernet (PPPoE)"
.%O RFC 2516
.Re
.Sh HISTORY
The
.Nm
utility is based on the
.Ic spppcontrol
utility which appeared in
.Fx 3.0 .
.Sh AUTHORS
The program was written by
.ie t J\(:org Wunsch,
.el Joerg Wunsch,
Dresden, and modified for PPPoE support by Martin Husemann.