.\" $FreeBSD$ .Dd 20 September 1995 .nr XX \w'\fC00' .Os FreeBSD .Dt PPP 8 .Sh NAME .Nm ppp .Nd Point to Point Protocol (a.k.a. user-ppp) .Sh SYNOPSIS .Nm .Op Fl nat .Op Fl quiet .Op Fl Va mode .Op Ar system Ns .No ... .Sh DESCRIPTION This is a user process .Em PPP software package. Normally, .Em PPP is implemented as a part of the kernel (e.g. as managed by .Xr pppd 8 ) and it's thus somewhat hard to debug and/or modify its behaviour. However, in this implementation .Em PPP is done as a user process with the help of the tunnel device driver (tun). .Pp The .Fl nat flag (or .Fl alias flag for backwards compatability) does the equivalent of a .Dq nat enable yes , enabling .Nm ppp Ns No s network address translation features. This allows .Nm ppp to act as a NAT or masquerading engine for all machines on an internal LAN. Refer to .Xr libalias 3 for details. .Pp The .Fl quiet flag tells .Nm to be silent at startup rather than displaying the mode and interface to standard output. .Pp The following .Va mode Ns No s are understood by .Nm ppp : .Bl -tag -width XXX -offset XXX .It Fl auto .Nm opens the tun interface, configures it then goes into the background. The link isn't brought up until outgoing data is detected on the tun interface at which point .Nm attempts to bring up the link. Packets received (including the first one) while .Nm is trying to bring the link up will remain queued for a default of 2 minutes. See the .Dq set choked command below. .Pp In .Fl auto mode, at least one .Dq system must be given on the command line (see below) and a .Dq set ifaddr must be done in the system profile that specifies a peer IP address to use when configuring the interface. Something like .Dq 10.0.0.1/0 is usually appropriate. See the .Dq pmdemand system in .Pa /usr/share/examples/ppp/ppp.conf.sample for an example. .It Fl background Here, .Nm attempts to establish a connection with the peer immediately. If it succeeds, .Nm goes into the background and the parent process returns an exit code of 0. If it fails, .Nm exits with a non-zero result. .It Fl foreground In foreground mode, .Nm attempts to establish a connection with the peer immediately, but never becomes a daemon. The link is created in background mode. This is useful if you wish to control .Nm ppp Ns No s invocation from another process. .It Fl direct This is used for receiving incoming connections. .Nm ignores the .Dq set device line and uses descriptor 0 as the link. .Pp If callback is configured, .Nm will use the .Dq set device information when dialing back. .It Fl dedicated This option is designed for machines connected with a dedicated wire. .Nm will always keep the device open and will never use any configured chat scripts. .It Fl ddial This mode is equivalent to .Fl auto mode except that .Nm will bring the link back up any time it's dropped for any reason. .It Fl interactive This is a no-op, and gives the same behaviour as if none of the above modes have been specified. .Nm loads any sections specified on the command line then provides an interactive prompt. .El .Pp One or more configuration entries or systems .Pq as specified in Pa /etc/ppp/ppp.conf may also be specified on the command line. .Nm will read the .Dq default system from .Pa /etc/ppp/ppp.conf at startup, followed by each of the systems specified on the command line. .Sh Major Features .Bl -diag .It Provides an interactive user interface. Using its command mode, the user can easily enter commands to establish the connection with the remote end, check the status of connection and close the connection. All functions can also be optionally password protected for security. .It Supports both manual and automatic dialing. Interactive mode has a .Dq term command which enables you to talk to the device directly. When you are connected to the remote peer and it starts to talk .Em PPP , .Nm detects it and switches to packet mode automatically. Once you have determined the proper sequence for connecting with the remote host, you can write a chat script to define the necessary dialing and login procedure for later convenience. .It Supports on-demand dialup capability. By using .Fl auto mode, .Nm will act as a daemon and wait for a packet to be sent over the .Em PPP link. When this happens, the daemon automatically dials and establishes the connection. In almost the same manner .Fl ddial mode (direct-dial mode) also automatically dials and establishes the connection. However, it differs in that it will dial the remote site any time it detects the link is down, even if there are no packets to be sent. This mode is useful for full-time connections where we worry less about line charges and more about being connected full time. A third .Fl dedicated mode is also available. This mode is targeted at a dedicated link between two machines. .Nm will never voluntarily quit from dedicated mode - you must send it the .Dq quit all command via its diagnostic socket. A .Dv SIGHUP will force an LCP renegotiation, and a .Dv SIGTERM will force it to exit. .It Supports client callback. .Nm can use either the standard LCP callback protocol or the Microsoft CallBack Control Protocol (ftp://ftp.microsoft.com/developr/rfc/cbcp.txt). .It Supports packet aliasing. Packet aliasing (a.k.a. IP masquerading) allows computers on a private, unregistered network to access the Internet. The .Em PPP host acts as a masquerading gateway. IP addresses as well as TCP and UDP port numbers are aliased for outgoing packets and de-aliased for returning packets. .It Supports background PPP connections. In background mode, if .Nm successfully establishes the connection, it will become a daemon. Otherwise, it will exit with an error. This allows the setup of scripts that wish to execute certain commands only if the connection is successfully established. .It Supports server-side PPP connections. In direct mode, .Nm acts as server which accepts incoming .Em PPP connections on stdin/stdout. .It Supports PAP and CHAP (rfc 1994) authentication. With PAP or CHAP, it is possible to skip the Unix style .Xr login 1 procedure, and use the .Em PPP protocol for authentication instead. If the peer requests Microsoft CHAP authentication and .Nm is compiled with DES support, an appropriate MD4/DES response will be made. .It Supports RADIUS (rfc 2138) authentication. An extension to PAP and CHAP, .Em \&R Ns No emote .Em \&A Ns No ccess .Em \&D Ns No ial .Em \&I Ns No n .Em \&U Ns No ser .Em \&S Ns No ervice allows authentication information to be stored in a central or distributed database along with various per-user framed connection characteristics. If .Pa libradius is available at compile time, .Nm will use it to make .Em RADIUS requests when configured to do so. .It Supports Proxy Arp. .Nm can be configured to make one or more proxy arp entries on behalf of the peer. This allows routing from the peer to the LAN without configuring each machine on that LAN. .It Supports packet filtering. User can define four kinds of filters: the .Em in filter for incoming packets, the .Em out filter for outgoing packets, the .Em dial filter to define a dialing trigger packet and the .Em alive filter for keeping a connection alive with the trigger packet. .It Tunnel driver supports bpf. The user can use .Xr tcpdump 1 to check the packet flow over the .Em PPP link. .It Supports PPP over TCP and PPP over UDP. If a device name is specified as .Em host Ns No : Ns Em port Ns .Op / Ns Em tcp Ns No | Ns Em udp , .Nm will open a TCP or UDP connection for transporting data rather than using a conventional serial device. UDP connections force .Nm into synchronous mode. .It Supports PPP over ISDN If .Nm is given a raw B-channel i4b device to open as a link, it's able to talk to the .Xr isdnd 8 daemon to establish an ISDN connection. .It "Supports IETF draft Predictor-1 (rfc 1978) and DEFLATE (rfc 1979) compression." .Nm supports not only VJ-compression but also Predictor-1 and DEFLATE compression. Normally, a modem has built-in compression (e.g. v42.bis) and the system may receive higher data rates from it as a result of such compression. While this is generally a good thing in most other situations, this higher speed data imposes a penalty on the system by increasing the number of serial interrupts the system has to process in talking to the modem and also increases latency. Unlike VJ-compression, Predictor-1 and DEFLATE compression pre-compresses .Em all network traffic flowing through the link, thus reducing overheads to a minimum. .It Supports Microsoft's IPCP extensions (rfc 1877). Name Server Addresses and NetBIOS Name Server Addresses can be negotiated with clients using the Microsoft .Em PPP stack (ie. Win95, WinNT) .It Supports Multi-link PPP (rfc 1990) It is possible to configure .Nm to open more than one physical connection to the peer, combining the bandwidth of all links for better throughput. .El .Sh PERMISSIONS .Nm is installed as user .Dv root and group .Dv network , with permissions .Dv 04554 . By default, .Nm will not run if the invoking user id is not zero. This may be overridden by using the .Dq allow users command in .Pa /etc/ppp/ppp.conf . When running as a normal user, .Nm switches to user id 0 in order to alter the system routing table, set up system lock files and read the ppp configuration files. All external commands (executed via the "shell" or "!bg" commands) are executed as the user id that invoked .Nm ppp . Refer to the .Sq ID0 logging facility if you're interested in what exactly is done as user id zero. .Sh GETTING STARTED When you first run .Nm you may need to deal with some initial configuration details. .Bl -bullet .It Your kernel must include a tunnel device (the GENERIC kernel includes one by default). If it doesn't, or if you require more than one tun interface, you'll need to rebuild your kernel with the following line in your kernel configuration file: .Pp .Dl pseudo-device tun N .Pp where .Ar N is the maximum number of .Em PPP connections you wish to support. .It Check your .Pa /dev directory for the tunnel device entries .Pa /dev/tunN , where .Sq N represents the number of the tun device, starting at zero. If they don't exist, you can create them by running "sh ./MAKEDEV tunN". This will create tun devices 0 through .Ar N . .It Make sure that your system has a group named .Dq network in the .Pa /etc/group file and that that group contains the names of all users expected to use .Nm ppp . Refer to the .Xr group 5 manual page for details. Each of these users must also be given access using the .Dq allow users command in .Pa /etc/ppp/ppp.conf . .It Create a log file. .Nm uses .Xr syslog 3 to log information. A common log file name is .Pa /var/log/ppp.log . To make output go to this file, put the following lines in the .Pa /etc/syslog.conf file: .Bd -literal -offset indent !ppp *.*/var/log/ppp.log .Ed .Pp It is possible to have more than one .Em PPP log file by creating a link to the .Nm executable: .Pp .Dl # cd /usr/sbin .Dl # ln ppp ppp0 .Pp and using .Bd -literal -offset indent !ppp0 *.*/var/log/ppp0.log .Ed .Pp in .Pa /etc/syslog.conf . Don't forget to send a .Dv HUP signal to .Xr syslogd 8 after altering .Pa /etc/syslog.conf . .It Although not strictly relevant to .Nm ppp Ns No s operation, you should configure your resolver so that it works correctly. This can be done by configuring a local DNS .Pq using Xr named 8 or by adding the correct .Sq name-server lines to the file .Pa /etc/resolv.conf . Refer to the .Xr resolv.conf 5 manual page for details. .Pp Alternatively, if the peer supports it, .Nm can be configured to ask the peer for the nameserver address(es) and to update .Pa /etc/resolv.conf automatically. Refer to the .Dq enable dns command below for details. .El .Sh MANUAL DIALING In the following examples, we assume that your machine name is .Dv awfulhak . when you invoke .Nm (see .Sx PERMISSIONS above) with no arguments, you are presented with a prompt: .Bd -literal -offset indent ppp ON awfulhak> .Ed .Pp The .Sq ON part of your prompt should always be in upper case. If it is in lower case, it means that you must supply a password using the .Dq passwd command. This only ever happens if you connect to a running version of .Nm and have not authenticated yourself using the correct password. .Pp You can start by specifying the device name and speed: .Bd -literal -offset indent ppp ON awfulhak> set device /dev/cuaa0 ppp ON awfulhak> set speed 38400 .Ed .Pp Normally, hardware flow control (CTS/RTS) is used. However, under certain circumstances (as may happen when you are connected directly to certain PPP-capable terminal servers), this may result in .Nm hanging as soon as it tries to write data to your communications link as it is waiting for the CTS (clear to send) signal - which will never come. Thus, if you have a direct line and can't seem to make a connection, try turning CTS/RTS off with .Dq set ctsrts off . If you need to do this, check the .Dq set accmap description below too - you'll probably need to .Dq set accmap 000a0000 . .Pp Usually, parity is set to .Dq none , and this is .Nm ppp Ns No s default. Parity is a rather archaic error checking mechanism that is no longer used because modern modems do their own error checking, and most link-layer protocols (that's what .Nm is) use much more reliable checking mechanisms. Parity has a relatively huge overhead (a 12.5% increase in traffic) and as a result, it is always disabled .Pq set to Dq none when .Dv PPP is opened. However, some ISPs (Internet Service Providers) may use specific parity settings at connection time (before .Dv PPP is opened). Notably, Compuserve insist on even parity when logging in: .Bd -literal -offset indent ppp ON awfulhak> set parity even .Ed .Pp You can now see what your current device settings look like: .Bd -literal -offset indent ppp ON awfulhak> show physical Name: deflink State: closed Device: N/A Link Type: interactive Connect Count: 0 Queued Packets: 0 Phone Number: N/A Defaults: Device List: /dev/cuaa0 Characteristics: 38400bps, cs8, even parity, CTS/RTS on Connect time: 0 secs 0 octets in, 0 octets out Overall 0 bytes/sec ppp ON awfulhak> .Ed .Pp The term command can now be used to talk directly to the device: .Bd -literal -offset indent ppp ON awfulhak> term at OK atdt123456 CONNECT login: myispusername Password: myisppassword Protocol: ppp .Ed .Pp When the peer starts to talk in .Em PPP , .Nm detects this automatically and returns to command mode. .Bd -literal -offset indent ppp ON awfulhak> # No link has been established Ppp ON awfulhak> # We've connected & finished LCP PPp ON awfulhak> # We've authenticated PPP ON awfulhak> # We've agreed IP numbers .Ed .Pp If it does not, it's probable that the peer is waiting for your end to start negotiating. To force .Nm to start sending .Em PPP configuration packets to the peer, use the .Dq ~p command to drop out of terminal mode and enter packet mode. .Pp If you never even receive a login prompt, it is quite likely that the peer wants to use PAP or CHAP authentication instead of using Unix-style login/password authentication. To set things up properly, drop back to the prompt and set your authentication name and key, then reconnect: .Bd -literal -offset indent ~. ppp ON awfulhak> set authname myispusername ppp ON awfulhak> set authkey myisppassword ppp ON awfulhak> term at OK atdt123456 CONNECT .Ed .Pp You may need to tell ppp to initiate negotiations with the peer here too: .Bd -literal -offset indent ~p ppp ON awfulhak> # No link has been established Ppp ON awfulhak> # We've connected & finished LCP PPp ON awfulhak> # We've authenticated PPP ON awfulhak> # We've agreed IP numbers .Ed .Pp You are now connected! Note that .Sq PPP in the prompt has changed to capital letters to indicate that you have a peer connection. If only some of the three Ps go uppercase, wait until either everything is uppercase or lowercase. If they revert to lowercase, it means that .Nm couldn't successfully negotiate with the peer. A good first step for troubleshooting at this point would be to .Bd -literal -offset indent ppp ON awfulhak> set log local phase lcp ipcp .Ed .Pp and try again. Refer to the .Dq set log command description below for further details. If things fail at this point, it is quite important that you turn logging on and try again. It is also important that you note any prompt changes and report them to anyone trying to help you. .Pp When the link is established, the show command can be used to see how things are going: .Bd -literal -offset indent PPP ON awfulhak> show physical * Modem related information is shown here * PPP ON awfulhak> show ccp * CCP (compression) related information is shown here * PPP ON awfulhak> show lcp * LCP (line control) related information is shown here * PPP ON awfulhak> show ipcp * IPCP (IP) related information is shown here * PPP ON awfulhak> show link * Link (high level) related information is shown here * PPP ON awfulhak> show bundle * Logical (high level) connection related information is shown here * .Ed .Pp At this point, your machine has a host route to the peer. This means that you can only make a connection with the host on the other side of the link. If you want to add a default route entry (telling your machine to send all packets without another routing entry to the other side of the .Em PPP link), enter the following command: .Bd -literal -offset indent PPP ON awfulhak> add default HISADDR .Ed .Pp The string .Sq HISADDR represents the IP address of the connected peer. If the .Dq add command fails due to an existing route, you can overwrite the existing route using .Bd -literal -offset indent PPP ON awfulhak> add! default HISADDR .Ed .Pp This command can also be executed before actually making the connection. If a new IP address is negotiated at connection time, .Nm will update your default route accordingly. .Pp You can now use your network applications (ping, telnet, ftp etc.) in other windows or terminals on your machine. If you wish to reuse the current terminal, you can put .Nm into the background using your standard shell suspend and background commands (usually .Dq ^Z followed by .Dq bg ) . .Pp Refer to the .Sx PPP COMMAND LIST section for details on all available commands. .Sh AUTOMATIC DIALING To use automatic dialing, you must prepare some Dial and Login chat scripts. See the example definitions in .Pa /usr/share/examples/ppp/ppp.conf.sample (the format of .Pa /etc/ppp/ppp.conf is pretty simple). Each line contains one comment, inclusion, label or command: .Bl -bullet .It A line starting with a .Pq Dq # character is treated as a comment line. Leading whitespace are ignored when identifying comment lines. .It An inclusion is a line beginning with the word .Sq !include . It must have one argument - the file to include. You may wish to .Dq !include ~/.ppp.conf for compatibility with older versions of .Nm ppp . .It A label name starts in the first column and is followed by a colon .Pq Dq \&: . .It A command line must contain a space or tab in the first column. .El .Pp The .Pa /etc/ppp/ppp.conf file should consist of at least a .Dq default section. This section is always executed. It should also contain one or more sections, named according to their purpose, for example, .Dq MyISP would represent your ISP, and .Dq ppp-in would represent an incoming .Nm configuration. You can now specify the destination label name when you invoke .Nm ppp . Commands associated with the .Dq default label are executed, followed by those associated with the destination label provided. When .Nm is started with no arguments, the .Dq default section is still executed. The load command can be used to manually load a section from the .Pa /etc/ppp/ppp.conf file: .Bd -literal -offset indent ppp ON awfulhak> load MyISP .Ed .Pp Note, no action is taken by .Nm after a section is loaded, whether it's the result of passing a label on the command line or using the .Dq load command. Only the commands specified for that label in the configuration file are executed. However, when invoking .Nm with the .Fl background , .Fl ddial , or .Fl dedicated switches, the link mode tells .Nm to establish a connection. Refer to the .Dq set mode command below for further details. .Pp Once the connection is made, the .Sq ppp portion of the prompt will change to .Sq PPP : .Bd -literal -offset indent # ppp MyISP \&... ppp ON awfulhak> dial Ppp ON awfulhak> PPp ON awfulhak> PPP ON awfulhak> .Ed .Pp The Ppp prompt indicates that .Nm has entered the authentication phase. The PPp prompt indicates that .Nm has entered the network phase. The PPP prompt indicates that .Nm has successfully negotiated a network layer protocol and is in a usable state. .Pp If the .Pa /etc/ppp/ppp.linkup file is available, its contents are executed when the .Em PPP connection is established. See the provided .Dq pmdemand example in .Pa /usr/share/examples/ppp/ppp.conf.sample which runs a script in the background after the connection is established (refer to the .Dq shell and .Dq bg commands below for a description of possible substitution strings). Similarly, when a connection is closed, the contents of the .Pa /etc/ppp/ppp.linkdown file are executed. Both of these files have the same format as .Pa /etc/ppp/ppp.conf . .Pp In previous versions of .Nm ppp , it was necessary to re-add routes such as the default route in the .Pa ppp.linkup file. .Nm now supports .Sq sticky routes , where all routes that contain the .Dv HISADDR or .Dv MYADDR literals will automatically be updated when the values of .Dv HISADDR and/or .Dv MYADDR change. .Sh BACKGROUND DIALING If you want to establish a connection using .Nm non-interactively (such as from a .Xr crontab 5 entry or an .Xr at 1 job) you should use the .Fl background option. When .Fl background is specified, .Nm attempts to establish the connection immediately. If multiple phone numbers are specified, each phone number will be tried once. If the attempt fails, .Nm exits immediately with a non-zero exit code. If it succeeds, then .Nm becomes a daemon, and returns an exit status of zero to its caller. The daemon exits automatically if the connection is dropped by the remote system, or it receives a .Dv TERM signal. .Sh DIAL ON DEMAND Demand dialing is enabled with the .Fl auto or .Fl ddial options. You must also specify the destination label in .Pa /etc/ppp/ppp.conf to use. It must contain the .Dq set ifaddr command to define the remote peers IP address. (refer to .Pa /usr/share/examples/ppp/ppp.conf.sample ) .Bd -literal -offset indent # ppp -auto pmdemand .Ed .Pp When .Fl auto or .Fl ddial is specified, .Nm runs as a daemon but you can still configure or examine its configuration by using the .Dq set server command in .Pa /etc/ppp/ppp.conf , .Pq for example, Dq set server +3000 mypasswd and connecting to the diagnostic port as follows: .Bd -literal -offset indent # pppctl 3000 (assuming tun0) Password: PPP ON awfulhak> show who tcp (127.0.0.1:1028) * .Ed .Pp The .Dq show who command lists users that are currently connected to .Nm itself. If the diagnostic socket is closed or changed to a different socket, all connections are immediately dropped. .Pp In .Fl auto mode, when an outgoing packet is detected, .Nm will perform the dialing action (chat script) and try to connect with the peer. In .Fl ddial mode, the dialing action is performed any time the line is found to be down. If the connect fails, the default behaviour is to wait 30 seconds and then attempt to connect when another outgoing packet is detected. This behaviour can be changed using the .Dq set redial command: .Pp .No set redial Ar secs Ns Xo .Oo + Ns Ar inc Ns .Op - Ns Ar max Ns .Oc Op . Ns Ar next .Op Ar attempts .Xc .Pp .Bl -tag -width attempts -compact .It Ar secs is the number of seconds to wait before attempting to connect again. If the argument is the literal string .Sq Li random , the delay period is a random value between 1 and 30 seconds inclusive. .It Ar inc is the number of seconds that .Ar secs should be incremented each time a new dial attempt is made. The timeout reverts to .Ar secs only after a successful connection is established. The default value for .Ar inc is zero. .It Ar max is the maximum number of times .Nm should increment .Ar secs . The default value for .Ar max is 10. .It Ar next is the number of seconds to wait before attempting to dial the next number in a list of numbers (see the .Dq set phone command). The default is 3 seconds. Again, if the argument is the literal string .Sq Li random , the delay period is a random value between 1 and 30 seconds. .It Ar attempts is the maximum number of times to try to connect for each outgoing packet that triggers a dial. The previous value is unchanged if this parameter is omitted. If a value of zero is specified for .Ar attempts , .Nm will keep trying until a connection is made. .El .Pp So, for example; .Bd -literal -offset indent set redial 10.3 4 .Ed .Pp will attempt to connect 4 times for each outgoing packet that causes a dial attempt with a 3 second delay between each number and a 10 second delay after all numbers have been tried. If multiple phone numbers are specified, the total number of attempts is still 4 (it does not attempt each number 4 times). .Pp Alternatively, .Pp .Bd -literal -offset indent set redial 10+10-5.3 20 .Ed .Pp tells .Nm to attempt to connect 20 times. After the first attempt, .Nm pauses for 10 seconds. After the next attempt it pauses for 20 seconds and so on until after the sixth attempt it pauses for 1 minute. The next 14 pauses will also have a duration of one minute. If .Nm connects, disconnects and fails to connect again, the timeout starts again at 10 seconds. .Pp Modifying the dial delay is very useful when running .Nm in .Fl auto mode on both ends of the link. If each end has the same timeout, both ends wind up calling each other at the same time if the link drops and both ends have packets queued. At some locations, the serial link may not be reliable, and carrier may be lost at inappropriate times. It is possible to have .Nm redial should carrier be unexpectedly lost during a session. .Bd -literal -offset indent set reconnect timeout ntries .Ed .Pp This command tells .Nm to re-establish the connection .Ar ntries times on loss of carrier with a pause of .Ar timeout seconds before each try. For example, .Bd -literal -offset indent set reconnect 3 5 .Ed .Pp tells .Nm that on an unexpected loss of carrier, it should wait .Ar 3 seconds before attempting to reconnect. This may happen up to .Ar 5 times before .Nm gives up. The default value of ntries is zero (no reconnect). Care should be taken with this option. If the local timeout is slightly longer than the remote timeout, the reconnect feature will always be triggered (up to the given number of times) after the remote side times out and hangs up. NOTE: In this context, losing too many LQRs constitutes a loss of carrier and will trigger a reconnect. If the .Fl background flag is specified, all phone numbers are dialed at most once until a connection is made. The next number redial period specified with the .Dq set redial command is honoured, as is the reconnect tries value. If your redial value is less than the number of phone numbers specified, not all the specified numbers will be tried. To terminate the program, type .Bd -literal -offset indent PPP ON awfulhak> close ppp ON awfulhak> quit all .Ed .Pp A simple .Dq quit command will terminate the .Xr pppctl 8 or .Xr telnet 1 connection but not the .Nm program itself. You must use .Dq quit all to terminate .Nm as well. .Sh RECEIVING INCOMING PPP CONNECTIONS (Method 1) To handle an incoming .Em PPP connection request, follow these steps: .Bl -enum .It Make sure the modem and (optionally) .Pa /etc/rc.serial is configured correctly. .Bl -bullet -compact .It Use Hardware Handshake (CTS/RTS) for flow control. .It Modem should be set to NO echo back (ATE0) and NO results string (ATQ1). .El .Pp .It Edit .Pa /etc/ttys to enable a .Xr getty 8 on the port where the modem is attached. For example: .Pp .Dl ttyd1 "/usr/libexec/getty std.38400" dialup on secure .Pp Don't forget to send a .Dv HUP signal to the .Xr init 8 process to start the .Xr getty 8 : .Pp .Dl # kill -HUP 1 .It Create a .Pa /usr/local/bin/ppplogin file with the following contents: .Bd -literal -offset indent #! /bin/sh exec /usr/sbin/ppp -direct incoming .Ed .Pp Direct mode .Pq Fl direct lets .Nm work with stdin and stdout. You can also use .Xr pppctl 8 to connect to a configured diagnostic port, in the same manner as with client-side .Nm ppp . .Pp Here, the .Ar incoming section must be set up in .Pa /etc/ppp/ppp.conf . .Pp Make sure that the .Ar incoming section contains the .Dq allow users command as appropriate. .It Prepare an account for the incoming user. .Bd -literal ppp:xxxx:66:66:PPP Login User:/home/ppp:/usr/local/bin/ppplogin .Ed .Pp Refer to the manual entries for .Xr adduser 8 and .Xr vipw 8 for details. .It Support for IPCP Domain Name Server and NetBIOS Name Server negotiation can be enabled using the .Dq accept dns and .Dq set nbns commands. Refer to their descriptions below. .El .Pp .Sh RECEIVING INCOMING PPP CONNECTIONS (Method 2) This method differs in that we use .Nm ppp to authenticate the connection rather than .Xr login 1 : .Bl -enum .It Configure your default section in .Pa /etc/gettytab with automatic ppp recognition by specifying the .Dq pp capability: .Bd -literal default:\\ :pp=/usr/local/bin/ppplogin:\\ ..... .Ed .It Configure your serial device(s), enable a .Xr getty 8 and create .Pa /usr/local/bin/ppplogin as in the first three steps for method 1 above. .It Add either .Dq enable chap or .Dq enable pap .Pq or both to .Pa /etc/ppp/ppp.conf under the .Sq incoming label (or whatever label .Pa ppplogin uses). .It Create an entry in .Pa /etc/ppp/ppp.secret for each incoming user: .Bd -literal Pfredxxxx Pgeorgeyyyy .Ed .El .Pp Now, as soon as .Xr getty 8 detects a ppp connection (by recognising the HDLC frame headers), it runs .Dq /usr/local/bin/ppplogin . .Pp It is .Em VITAL that either PAP or CHAP are enabled as above. If they are not, you are allowing anybody to establish ppp session with your machine .Em without a password, opening yourself up to all sorts of potential attacks. .Sh AUTHENTICATING INCOMING CONNECTIONS Normally, the receiver of a connection requires that the peer authenticates itself. This may be done using .Xr login 1 , but alternatively, you can use PAP or CHAP. CHAP is the more secure of the two, but some clients may not support it. Once you decide which you wish to use, add the command .Sq enable chap or .Sq enable pap to the relevant section of .Pa ppp.conf . .Pp You must then configure the .Pa /etc/ppp/ppp.secret file. This file contains one line per possible client, each line containing up to five fields: .Pp .Ar name Ar key Oo .Ar hisaddr Op Ar label Op Ar callback-number .Oc .Pp The .Ar name and .Ar key specify the client username and password. If .Ar key is .Dq \&* and PAP is being used, .Nm will look up the password database .Pq Xr passwd 5 when authenticating. If the client does not offer a suitable response based on any .Ar name Ns No / Ns Ar key combination in .Pa ppp.secret , authentication fails. .Pp If authentication is successful, .Ar hisaddr .Pq if specified is used when negotiating IP numbers. See the .Dq set ifaddr command for details. .Pp If authentication is successful and .Ar label is specified, the current system label is changed to match the given .Ar label . This will change the subsequent parsing of the .Pa ppp.linkup and .Pa ppp.linkdown files. .Pp If authentication is successful and .Ar callback-number is specified and .Dq set callback has been used in .Pa ppp.conf , the client will be called back on the given number. If CBCP is being used, .Ar callback-number may also contain a list of numbers or a .Dq \&* , as if passed to the .Dq set cbcp command. The value will be used in .Nm ppp Ns No s subsequent CBCP phase. .Sh PPP OVER TCP and UDP (a.k.a Tunnelling) Instead of running .Nm over a serial link, it is possible to use a TCP connection instead by specifying the host, port and protocol as the device: .Pp .Dl set device ui-gate:6669/tcp .Pp Instead of opening a serial device, .Nm will open a TCP connection to the given machine on the given socket. It should be noted however that .Nm doesn't use the telnet protocol and will be unable to negotiate with a telnet server. You should set up a port for receiving this .Em PPP connection on the receiving machine (ui-gate). This is done by first updating .Pa /etc/services to name the service: .Pp .Dl ppp-in 6669/tcp # Incoming PPP connections over TCP .Pp and updating .Pa /etc/inetd.conf to tell .Xr inetd 8 how to deal with incoming connections on that port: .Pp .Dl ppp-in stream tcp nowait root /usr/sbin/ppp ppp -direct ppp-in .Pp Don't forget to send a .Dv HUP signal to .Xr inetd 8 after you've updated .Pa /etc/inetd.conf . Here, we use a label named .Dq ppp-in . The entry in .Pa /etc/ppp/ppp.conf on ui-gate (the receiver) should contain the following: .Bd -literal -offset indent ppp-in: set timeout 0 set ifaddr 10.0.4.1 10.0.4.2 add 10.0.1.0/24 10.0.4.2 .Ed .Pp You may also want to enable PAP or CHAP for security. To enable PAP, add the following line: .Bd -literal -offset indent enable PAP .Ed .Pp You'll also need to create the following entry in .Pa /etc/ppp/ppp.secret : .Bd -literal -offset indent MyAuthName MyAuthPasswd .Ed .Pp If .Ar MyAuthPasswd is a .Pq Dq * , the password is looked up in the .Xr passwd 5 database. .Pp The entry in .Pa /etc/ppp/ppp.conf on awfulhak (the initiator) should contain the following: .Bd -literal -offset indent ui-gate: set escape 0xff set device ui-gate:ppp-in/tcp set dial set timeout 30 set log Phase Chat Connect hdlc LCP IPCP CCP tun set ifaddr 10.0.4.2 10.0.4.1 add 10.0.2.0/24 10.0.4.1 .Ed .Pp Again, if you're enabling PAP, you'll also need: .Bd -literal -offset indent set authname MyAuthName set authkey MyAuthKey .Ed .Pp We're assigning the address of 10.0.4.1 to ui-gate, and the address 10.0.4.2 to awfulhak. To open the connection, just type .Pp .Dl awfulhak # ppp -background ui-gate .Pp The result will be an additional "route" on awfulhak to the 10.0.2.0/24 network via the TCP connection, and an additional "route" on ui-gate to the 10.0.1.0/24 network. The networks are effectively bridged - the underlying TCP connection may be across a public network (such as the Internet), and the .Em PPP traffic is conceptually encapsulated (although not packet by packet) inside the TCP stream between the two gateways. .Pp The major disadvantage of this mechanism is that there are two "guaranteed delivery" mechanisms in place - the underlying TCP stream and whatever protocol is used over the .Em PPP link - probably TCP again. If packets are lost, both levels will get in each others way trying to negotiate sending of the missing packet. .Pp To avoid this overhead, it is also possible to do all this using UDP instead of TCP as the transport by simply changing the protocol from "tcp" to "udp". When using UDP as a transport, .Nm will operate in synchronous mode. This is another gain as the incoming data does not have to be rearranged into packets. .Pp .Sh NETWORK ADDRESS TRANSLATION (PACKET ALIASING) The .Fl nat .Pq \&or Fl alias command line option enables network address translation (a.k.a. packet aliasing). This allows the .Nm host to act as a masquerading gateway for other computers over a local area network. Outgoing IP packets are aliased so that they appear to come from the .Nm host, and incoming packets are de-aliased so that they are routed to the correct machine on the local area network. Packet aliasing allows computers on private, unregistered subnets to have Internet access, although they are invisible from the outside world. In general, correct .Nm operation should first be verified with network address translation disabled. Then, the .Fl nat option should be switched on, and network applications (web browser, .Xr telnet 1 , .Xr ftp 1 , .Xr ping 8 , .Xr traceroute 8 ) should be checked on the .Nm host. Finally, the same or similar applications should be checked on other computers in the LAN. If network applications work correctly on the .Nm host, but not on other machines in the LAN, then the masquerading software is working properly, but the host is either not forwarding or possibly receiving IP packets. Check that IP forwarding is enabled in .Pa /etc/rc.conf and that other machines have designated the .Nm host as the gateway for the LAN. .Sh PACKET FILTERING This implementation supports packet filtering. There are four kinds of filters; the .Em in filter, the .Em out filter, the .Em dial filter and the .Em alive filter. Here are the basics: .Bl -bullet .It A filter definition has the following syntax: .Pp set filter .Ar name .Ar rule-no .Ar action .Op \&! .Oo .Op host .Ar src_addr Ns Op / Ns Ar width .Op Ar dst_addr Ns Op / Ns Ar width .Oc .Oo Ar proto Op src Ar cmp port .Op dst Ar cmp port .Op estab .Op syn .Op finrst .Oc .Bl -enum .It .Ar Name should be one of .Sq in , .Sq out , .Sq dial or .Sq alive . .It .Ar Rule-no is a numeric value between .Sq 0 and .Sq 39 specifying the rule number. Rules are specified in numeric order according to .Ar rule-no , but only if rule .Sq 0 is defined. .It .Ar Action may be specified as .Sq permit or .Sq deny , in which case, if a given packet matches the rule, the associated action is taken immediately. .Ar Action can also be specified as .Sq clear to clear the action associated with that particular rule, or as a new rule number greater than the current rule. In this case, if a given packet matches the current rule, the packet will next be matched against the new rule number (rather than the next rule number). .Pp The .Ar action may optionally be followed with an exclamation mark .Pq Dq ! , telling .Nm to reverse the sense of the following match. .It .Op Ar src_addr Ns Op / Ns Ar width and .Op Ar dst_addr Ns Op / Ns Ar width are the source and destination IP number specifications. If .Op / Ns Ar width is specified, it gives the number of relevant netmask bits, allowing the specification of an address range. .Pp Either .Ar src_addr or .Ar dst_addr may be given the values .Dv MYADDR or .Dv HISADDR (refer to the description of the .Dq bg command for a description of these values). When these values are used, the filters will be updated any time the values change. This is similar to the behaviour of the .Dq add command below. .It .Ar Proto must be one of .Sq icmp , .Sq igmp , .Sq ospf , .Sq udp or .Sq tcp . .It .Ar Cmp is one of .Sq \< , .Sq \&eq or .Sq \> , meaning less-than, equal and greater-than respectively. .Ar Port can be specified as a numeric port or by service name from .Pa /etc/services . .It The .Sq estab , .Sq syn , and .Sq finrst flags are only allowed when .Ar proto is set to .Sq tcp , and represent the TH_ACK, TH_SYN and TH_FIN or TH_RST TCP flags respectively. .El .Pp .It Each filter can hold up to 40 rules, starting from rule 0. The entire rule set is not effective until rule 0 is defined, ie. the default is to allow everything through. .It If no rule is matched to a packet, that packet will be discarded (blocked). .It Use .Dq set filter Ar name No -1 to flush all rules. .El .Pp See .Pa /usr/share/examples/ppp/ppp.conf.sample . .Sh SETTING THE IDLE TIMER To check/set the idle timer, use the .Dq show bundle and .Dq set timeout commands: .Bd -literal -offset indent ppp ON awfulhak> set timeout 600 .Ed .Pp The timeout period is measured in seconds, the default value for which is 180 seconds .Pq or 3 min . To disable the idle timer function, use the command .Bd -literal -offset indent ppp ON awfulhak> set timeout 0 .Ed .Pp In .Fl ddial and .Fl dedicated modes, the idle timeout is ignored. In .Fl auto mode, when the idle timeout causes the .Em PPP session to be closed, the .Nm program itself remains running. Another trigger packet will cause it to attempt to re-establish the link. .Sh PREDICTOR-1 and DEFLATE COMPRESSION .Nm supports both Predictor type 1 and deflate compression. By default, .Nm will attempt to use (or be willing to accept) both compression protocols when the peer agrees .Pq or requests them . The deflate protocol is preferred by .Nm ppp . Refer to the .Dq disable and .Dq deny commands if you wish to disable this functionality. .Pp It is possible to use a different compression algorithm in each direction by using only one of .Dq disable deflate and .Dq deny deflate .Pq assuming that the peer supports both algorithms . .Pp By default, when negotiating DEFLATE, .Nm will use a window size of 15. Refer to the .Dq set deflate command if you wish to change this behaviour. .Pp A special algorithm called DEFLATE24 is also available, and is disabled and denied by default. This is exactly the same as DEFLATE except that it uses CCP ID 24 to negotiate. This allows .Nm to successfully negotiate DEFLATE with .Nm pppd version 2.3.*. .Sh CONTROLLING IP ADDRESS .Nm uses IPCP to negotiate IP addresses. Each side of the connection specifies the IP address that it's willing to use, and if the requested IP address is acceptable then .Nm returns ACK to the requester. Otherwise, .Nm returns NAK to suggest that the peer use a different IP address. When both sides of the connection agree to accept the received request (and send ACK), IPCP is set to the open state and a network level connection is established. To control this IPCP behaviour, this implementation has the .Dq set ifaddr command for defining the local and remote IP address: .Bd -literal -offset indent .No set ifaddr Oo Ar src_addr Ns .Op / Ns Ar \&nn .Oo Ar dst_addr Ns Op / Ns Ar \&nn .Oo Ar netmask .Op Ar trigger_addr .Oc .Oc .Oc .Ed .Pp where, .Sq src_addr is the IP address that the local side is willing to use, .Sq dst_addr is the IP address which the remote side should use and .Sq netmask is the netmask that should be used. .Sq Src_addr defaults to the current .Xr hostname 1 , .Sq dst_addr defaults to 0.0.0.0, and .Sq netmask defaults to whatever mask is appropriate for .Sq src_addr . It is only possible to make .Sq netmask smaller than the default. The usual value is 255.255.255.255, as most kernels ignore the netmask of a POINTOPOINT interface. .Pp Some incorrect .Em PPP implementations require that the peer negotiates a specific IP address instead of .Sq src_addr . If this is the case, .Sq trigger_addr may be used to specify this IP number. This will not affect the routing table unless the other side agrees with this proposed number. .Bd -literal -offset indent set ifaddr 192.244.177.38 192.244.177.2 255.255.255.255 0.0.0.0 .Ed .Pp The above specification means: .Pp .Bl -bullet -compact .It I will first suggest that my IP address should be 0.0.0.0, but I will only accept an address of 192.244.177.38. .It I strongly insist that the peer uses 192.244.177.2 as his own address and won't permit the use of any IP address but 192.244.177.2. When the peer requests another IP address, I will always suggest that it uses 192.244.177.2. .It The routing table entry will have a netmask of 0xffffffff. .El .Pp This is all fine when each side has a pre-determined IP address, however it is often the case that one side is acting as a server which controls all IP addresses and the other side should go along with it. In order to allow more flexible behaviour, the .Dq set ifaddr command allows the user to specify IP addresses more loosely: .Pp .Dl set ifaddr 192.244.177.38/24 192.244.177.2/20 .Pp A number followed by a slash .Pq Dq / represents the number of bits significant in the IP address. The above example means: .Pp .Bl -bullet -compact .It I'd like to use 192.244.177.38 as my address if it is possible, but I'll also accept any IP address between 192.244.177.0 and 192.244.177.255. .It I'd like to make him use 192.244.177.2 as his own address, but I'll also permit him to use any IP address between 192.244.176.0 and 192.244.191.255. .It As you may have already noticed, 192.244.177.2 is equivalent to saying 192.244.177.2/32. .It As an exception, 0 is equivalent to 0.0.0.0/0, meaning that I have no preferred IP address and will obey the remote peers selection. When using zero, no routing table entries will be made until a connection is established. .It 192.244.177.2/0 means that I'll accept/permit any IP address but I'll try to insist that 192.244.177.2 be used first. .El .Pp .Sh CONNECTING WITH YOUR INTERNET SERVICE PROVIDER The following steps should be taken when connecting to your ISP: .Bl -enum .It Describe your providers phone number(s) in the dial script using the .Dq set phone command. This command allows you to set multiple phone numbers for dialing and redialing separated by either a pipe .Pq Dq \&| or a colon .Pq Dq \&: : .Bd -literal -offset indent .No set phone Ar telno Ns Xo .Oo \&| Ns Ar backupnumber .Oc Ns ... Ns Oo : Ns Ar nextnumber .Oc Ns ... .Xc .Ed .Pp Numbers after the first in a pipe-separated list are only used if the previous number was used in a failed dial or login script. Numbers separated by a colon are used sequentially, irrespective of what happened as a result of using the previous number. For example: .Bd -literal -offset indent set phone "1234567|2345678:3456789|4567890" .Ed .Pp Here, the 1234567 number is attempted. If the dial or login script fails, the 2345678 number is used next time, but *only* if the dial or login script fails. On the dial after this, the 3456789 number is used. The 4567890 number is only used if the dial or login script using the 3456789 fails. If the login script of the 2345678 number fails, the next number is still the 3456789 number. As many pipes and colons can be used as are necessary (although a given site would usually prefer to use either the pipe or the colon, but not both). The next number redial timeout is used between all numbers. When the end of the list is reached, the normal redial period is used before starting at the beginning again. The selected phone number is substituted for the \\\\T string in the .Dq set dial command (see below). .It Set up your redial requirements using .Dq set redial . For example, if you have a bad telephone line or your provider is usually engaged (not so common these days), you may want to specify the following: .Bd -literal -offset indent set redial 10 4 .Ed .Pp This says that up to 4 phone calls should be attempted with a pause of 10 seconds before dialing the first number again. .It Describe your login procedure using the .Dq set dial and .Dq set login commands. The .Dq set dial command is used to talk to your modem and establish a link with your ISP, for example: .Bd -literal -offset indent set dial "ABORT BUSY ABORT NO\\\\sCARRIER TIMEOUT 4 \\"\\" \e ATZ OK-ATZ-OK ATDT\\\\T TIMEOUT 60 CONNECT" .Ed .Pp This modem "chat" string means: .Bl -bullet .It Abort if the string "BUSY" or "NO CARRIER" are received. .It Set the timeout to 4 seconds. .It Expect nothing. .It Send ATZ. .It Expect OK. If that's not received within the 4 second timeout, send ATZ and expect OK. .It Send ATDTxxxxxxx where xxxxxxx is the next number in the phone list from above. .It Set the timeout to 60. .It Wait for the CONNECT string. .El .Pp Once the connection is established, the login script is executed. This script is written in the same style as the dial script, but care should be taken to avoid having your password logged: .Bd -literal -offset indent set authkey MySecret set login "TIMEOUT 15 login:-\\\\r-login: awfulhak \e word: \\\\P ocol: PPP HELLO" .Ed .Pp This login "chat" string means: .Bl -bullet .It Set the timeout to 15 seconds. .It Expect "login:". If it's not received, send a carriage return and expect "login:" again. .It Send "awfulhak" .It Expect "word:" (the tail end of a "Password:" prompt). .It Send whatever our current .Ar authkey value is set to. .It Expect "ocol:" (the tail end of a "Protocol:" prompt). .It Send "PPP". .It Expect "HELLO". .El .Pp The .Dq set authkey command is logged specially. When .Ar command or .Ar chat logging is enabled, the actual password is not logged; .Sq ******** Ns is logged instead. .Pp Login scripts vary greatly between ISPs. If you're setting one up for the first time, .Em ENABLE CHAT LOGGING so that you can see if your script is behaving as you expect. .It Use .Dq set device and .Dq set speed to specify your serial line and speed, for example: .Bd -literal -offset indent set device /dev/cuaa0 set speed 115200 .Ed .Pp Cuaa0 is the first serial port on FreeBSD. If you're running .Nm on OpenBSD, cua00 is the first. A speed of 115200 should be specified if you have a modem capable of bit rates of 28800 or more. In general, the serial speed should be about four times the modem speed. .It Use the .Dq set ifaddr command to define the IP address. .Bl -bullet .It If you know what IP address your provider uses, then use it as the remote address (dst_addr), otherwise choose something like 10.0.0.2/0 (see below). .It If your provider has assigned a particular IP address to you, then use it as your address (src_addr). .It If your provider assigns your address dynamically, choose a suitably unobtrusive and unspecific IP number as your address. 10.0.0.1/0 would be appropriate. The bit after the / specifies how many bits of the address you consider to be important, so if you wanted to insist on something in the class C network 1.2.3.0, you could specify 1.2.3.1/24. .It If you find that your ISP accepts the first IP number that you suggest, specify third and forth arguments of .Dq 0.0.0.0 . This will force your ISP to assign a number. (The third argument will be ignored as it is less restrictive than the default mask for your .Sq src_addr . .El .Pp An example for a connection where you don't know your IP number or your ISPs IP number would be: .Bd -literal -offset indent set ifaddr 10.0.0.1/0 10.0.0.2/0 0.0.0.0 0.0.0.0 .Ed .Pp .It In most cases, your ISP will also be your default router. If this is the case, add the line .Bd -literal -offset indent add default HISADDR .Ed .Pp to .Pa /etc/ppp/ppp.conf . .Pp This tells .Nm to add a default route to whatever the peer address is .Pq 10.0.0.2 in this example . This route is .Sq sticky , meaning that should the value of .Dv HISADDR change, the route will be updated accordingly. .Pp Previous versions of .Nm required a similar entry in the .Pa /etc/ppp/ppp.linkup file. Since the advent of .Sq sticky routes , this is no longer required. .It If your provider requests that you use PAP/CHAP authentication methods, add the next lines to your .Pa /etc/ppp/ppp.conf file: .Bd -literal -offset indent set authname MyName set authkey MyPassword .Ed .Pp Both are accepted by default, so .Nm will provide whatever your ISP requires. .Pp It should be noted that a login script is rarely (if ever) required when PAP or CHAP are in use. .It Ask your ISP to authenticate your nameserver address(es) with the line .Bd -literal -offset indent enable dns .Ed Do .Em NOT do this if you are running an local DNS, as .Nm will simply circumvent its use by entering some nameserver lines in .Pa /etc/resolv.conf . .El .Pp Please refer to .Pa /usr/share/examples/ppp/ppp.conf.sample and .Pa /usr/share/examples/ppp/ppp.linkup.sample for some real examples. The pmdemand label should be appropriate for most ISPs. .Sh LOGGING FACILITY .Nm is able to generate the following log info either via .Xr syslog 3 or directly to the screen: .Pp .Bl -tag -width XXXXXXXXX -offset XXX -compact .It Li Async Dump async level packet in hex. .It Li CBCP Generate CBCP (CallBack Control Protocol) logs. .It Li CCP Generate a CCP packet trace. .It Li Chat Generate .Sq dial , .Sq login and .Sq hangup chat script trace logs. .It Li Command Log commands executed either from the command line or any of the configuration files. .It Li Connect Log Chat lines containing the string "CONNECT". .It Li Debug Log debug information. .It Li HDLC Dump HDLC packet in hex. .It Li ID0 Log all function calls specifically made as user id 0. .It Li IPCP Generate an IPCP packet trace. .It Li LCP Generate an LCP packet trace. .It Li LQM Generate LQR reports. .It Li Phase Phase transition log output. .It Li Physical Dump physical level packet in hex. .It Li Sync Dump sync level packet in hex. .It Li TCP/IP Dump all TCP/IP packets. .It Li Timer Log timer manipulation. .It Li TUN Include the tun device on each log line. .It Li Warning Output to the terminal device. If there is currently no terminal, output is sent to the log file using syslogs .Dv LOG_WARNING . .It Li Error Output to both the terminal device and the log file using syslogs .Dv LOG_ERROR . .It Li Alert Output to the log file using .Dv LOG_ALERT . .El .Pp The .Dq set log command allows you to set the logging output level. Multiple levels can be specified on a single command line. The default is equivalent to .Dq set log Phase . .Pp It is also possible to log directly to the screen. The syntax is the same except that the word .Dq local should immediately follow .Dq set log . The default is .Dq set log local (ie. only the un-maskable warning, error and alert output). .Pp If The first argument to .Dq set log Op local begins with a .Sq + or a .Sq - character, the current log levels are not cleared, for example: .Bd -literal -offset indent PPP ON awfulhak> set log phase PPP ON awfulhak> show log Log: Phase Warning Error Alert Local: Warning Error Alert PPP ON awfulhak> set log +tcp/ip -warning PPP ON awfulhak> set log local +command PPP ON awfulhak> show log Log: Phase TCP/IP Warning Error Alert Local: Command Warning Error Alert .Ed .Pp Log messages of level Warning, Error and Alert are not controllable using .Dq set log Op local . .Pp The .Ar Warning level is special in that it will not be logged if it can be displayed locally. .Sh SIGNAL HANDLING .Nm deals with the following signals: .Bl -tag -width XX .It INT Receipt of this signal causes the termination of the current connection (if any). This will cause .Nm to exit unless it is in .Fl auto or .Fl ddial mode. .It HUP, TERM & QUIT These signals tell .Nm to exit. .It USR2 This signal, tells .Nm to close any existing server socket, dropping all existing diagnostic connections. .El .Pp .Sh MULTI-LINK PPP If you wish to use more than one physical link to connect to a .Em PPP peer, that peer must also understand the .Em MULTI-LINK PPP protocol. Refer to RFC 1990 for specification details. .Pp The peer is identified using a combination of his .Dq endpoint discriminator and his .Dq authentication id . Either or both of these may be specified. It is recommended that at least one is specified, otherwise there is no way of ensuring that all links are actually connected to the same peer program, and some confusing lock-ups may result. Locally, these identification variables are specified using the .Dq set enddisc and .Dq set authname commands. The .Sq authname .Pq and Sq authkey must be agreed in advance with the peer. .Pp Multi-link capabilities are enabled using the .Dq set mrru command (set maximum reconstructed receive unit). Once multi-link is enabled, .Nm will attempt to negotiate a multi-link connection with the peer. .Pp By default, only one .Sq link is available .Pq called Sq deflink . To create more links, the .Dq clone command is used. This command will clone existing links, where all characteristics are the same except: .Bl -enum .It The new link has its own name as specified on the .Dq clone command line. .It The new link is an .Sq interactive link. It's mode may subsequently be changed using the .Dq set mode command. .It The new link is in a .Sq closed state. .El .Pp A summary of all available links can be seen using the .Dq show links command. .Pp Once a new link has been created, command usage varies. All link specific commands must be prefixed with the .Dq link Ar name command, specifying on which link the command is to be applied. When only a single link is available, .Nm is smart enough not to require the .Dq link Ar name prefix. .Pp Some commands can still be used without specifying a link - resulting in an operation at the .Sq bundle level. For example, once two or more links are available, the command .Dq show ccp will show CCP configuration and statistics at the multi-link level, and .Dq link deflink show ccp will show the same information at the .Dq deflink link level. .Pp Armed with this information, the following configuration might be used: .Pp .Bd -literal -offset indent mp: set timeout 0 set log phase chat set device /dev/cuaa0 /dev/cuaa1 /dev/cuaa2 set phone "123456789" set dial "ABORT BUSY ABORT NO\\sCARRIER TIMEOUT 5 \\"\\" ATZ \e OK-AT-OK \\\\dATDT\\\\T TIMEOUT 45 CONNECT" set login set ifaddr 10.0.0.1/0 10.0.0.2/0 set authname ppp set authkey ppppassword set mrru 1500 clone 1,2,3 link deflink remove .Ed .Pp Note how all cloning is done at the end of the configuration. Usually, the link will be configured first, then cloned. If you wish all links to be up all the time, you can add the following line to the end of your configuration. .Pp .Bd -literal -offset indent link 1,2,3 set mode ddial .Ed .Pp If you want the links to dial on demand, this command could be used: .Pp .Bd -literal -offset indent link * set mode auto .Ed .Pp Links may be tied to specific names by removing the .Dq set device line above, and specifying the following after the .Dq clone command: .Pp .Bd -literal -offset indent link 1 set device /dev/cuaa0 link 2 set device /dev/cuaa1 link 3 set device /dev/cuaa2 .Ed .Pp Use the .Dq help command to see which commands require context (using the .Dq link command), which have optional context and which should not have any context. .Pp When .Nm has negotiated .Em MULTI-LINK mode with the peer, it creates a local domain socket in the .Pa /var/run directory. This socket is used to pass link information (including the actual link file descriptor) between different .Nm invocations. This facilitates .Nm ppp Ns No s ability to be run from a .Xr getty 8 or directly from .Pa /etc/gettydefs (using the .Sq pp= capability), without needing to have initial control of the serial line. Once .Nm negotiates multi-link mode, it will pass its open link to any already running process. If there is no already running process, .Nm will act as the master, creating the socket and listening for new connections. .Sh PPP COMMAND LIST This section lists the available commands and their effect. They are usable either from an interactive .Nm session, from a configuration file or from a .Xr pppctl 8 or .Xr telnet 1 session. .Bl -tag -width XX .It accept|deny|enable|disable Ar option.... These directives tell .Nm how to negotiate the initial connection with the peer. Each .Dq option has a default of either accept or deny and enable or disable. .Dq Accept means that the option will be ACK'd if the peer asks for it. .Dq Deny means that the option will be NAK'd if the peer asks for it. .Dq Enable means that the option will be requested by us. .Dq Disable means that the option will not be requested by us. .Pp .Dq Option may be one of the following: .Bl -tag -width XX .It acfcomp Default: Enabled and Accepted. ACFComp stands for Address and Control Field Compression. Non LCP packets will usually have an address field of 0xff (the All-Stations address) and a control field of 0x03 (the Unnumbered Information command). If this option is negotiated, these two bytes are simply not sent, thus minimising traffic. .Pp See .Pa rfc1662 for details. .It chap Ns Op \&05 Default: Disabled and Accepted. CHAP stands for Challenge Handshake Authentication Protocol. Only one of CHAP and PAP (below) may be negotiated. With CHAP, the authenticator sends a "challenge" message to its peer. The peer uses a one-way hash function to encrypt the challenge and sends the result back. The authenticator does the same, and compares the results. The advantage of this mechanism is that no passwords are sent across the connection. A challenge is made when the connection is first made. Subsequent challenges may occur. If you want to have your peer authenticate itself, you must .Dq enable chap . in .Pa /etc/ppp/ppp.conf , and have an entry in .Pa /etc/ppp/ppp.secret for the peer. .Pp When using CHAP as the client, you need only specify .Dq AuthName and .Dq AuthKey in .Pa /etc/ppp/ppp.conf . CHAP is accepted by default. Some .Em PPP implementations use "MS-CHAP" rather than MD5 when encrypting the challenge. MS-CHAP is a combination of MD4 and DES. If .Nm was built on a machine with DES libraries available, it will respond to MS-CHAP authentication requests, but will never request them. .It deflate Default: Enabled and Accepted. This option decides if deflate compression will be used by the Compression Control Protocol (CCP). This is the same algorithm as used by the .Xr gzip 1 program. Note: There is a problem negotiating .Ar deflate capabilities with .Xr pppd 8 - a .Em PPP implementation available under many operating systems. .Nm pppd (version 2.3.1) incorrectly attempts to negotiate .Ar deflate compression using type .Em 24 as the CCP configuration type rather than type .Em 26 as specified in .Pa rfc1979 . Type .Ar 24 is actually specified as .Dq PPP Magna-link Variable Resource Compression in .Pa rfc1975 Ns No ! .Nm is capable of negotiating with .Nm pppd , but only if .Dq deflate24 is .Ar enable Ns No d and .Ar accept Ns No ed . .It deflate24 Default: Disabled and Denied. This is a variance of the .Ar deflate option, allowing negotiation with the .Xr pppd 8 program. Refer to the .Ar deflate section above for details. It is disabled by default as it violates .Pa rfc1975 . .It dns Default: Disabled and Denied. This option allows DNS negotiation. .Pp If .Dq enable Ns No d, .Nm will request that the peer confirms the entries in .Pa /etc/resolv.conf . If the peer NAKs our request (suggesting new IP numbers), .Pa /etc/resolv.conf is updated and another request is sent to confirm the new entries. .Pp If .Dq accept Ns No ed, .Nm will answer any DNS queries requested by the peer rather than rejecting them. The answer is taken from .Pa /etc/resolv.conf unless the .Dq set dns command is used as an override. .It enddisc Default: Enabled and Accepted. This option allows control over whether we negotiate an endpoint discriminator. We only send our discriminator if .Dq set enddisc is used and .Ar enddisc is enabled. We reject the peers discriminator if .Ar enddisc is denied. .It LANMan|chap80lm Default: Disabled and Accepted. The use of this authentication protocol is discouraged as it partially violates the authentication protocol by implementing two different mechanisms (LANMan & NT) under the guise of a single CHAP type (0x80). .Dq LANMan uses a simple DES encryption mechanism and is the least secure of the CHAP alternatives (although is still more secure than PAP). .Pp Refer to the .Dq MSChap description below for more details. .It lqr Default: Disabled and Accepted. This option decides if Link Quality Requests will be sent or accepted. LQR is a protocol that allows .Nm to determine that the link is down without relying on the modems carrier detect. When LQR is enabled, .Nm sends the .Em QUALPROTO option (see .Dq set lqrperiod below) as part of the LCP request. If the peer agrees, both sides will exchange LQR packets at the agreed frequency, allowing detailed link quality monitoring by enabling LQM logging. If the peer doesn't agree, ppp will send ECHO LQR requests instead. These packets pass no information of interest, but they .Em MUST be replied to by the peer. .Pp Whether using LQR or ECHO LQR, .Nm will abruptly drop the connection if 5 unacknowledged packets have been sent rather than sending a 6th. A message is logged at the .Em PHASE level, and any appropriate .Dq reconnect values are honoured as if the peer were responsible for dropping the connection. .It MSChap|chap80nt Default: Disabled and Accepted. The use of this authentication protocol is discouraged as it partially violates the authentication protocol by implementing two different mechanisms (LANMan & NT) under the guise of a single CHAP type (0x80). It is very similar to standard CHAP (type 0x05) except that it issues challenges of a fixed 8 bytes in length and uses a combination of MD4 and DES to encrypt the challenge rather than using the standard MD5 mechanism. CHAP type 0x80 for LANMan is also supported - see .Dq enable LANMan for details. .Pp Because both .Dq LANMan and .Dq NT use CHAP type 0x80, when acting as authenticator with both .Dq enable Ns No d , .Nm will rechallenge the peer up to three times if it responds using the wrong one of the two protocols. This gives the peer a chance to attempt using both protocols. .Pp Conversely, when .Nm acts as the authenticatee with both protocols .Dq accept Ns No ed , the protocols are used alternately in response to challenges. .Pp Note: If only LANMan is enabled, .Xr pppd 8 (version 2.3.5) misbehaves when acting as authenticatee. It provides both the NT and the LANMan answers, but also suggests that only the NT answer should be used. .It pap Default: Disabled and Accepted. PAP stands for Password Authentication Protocol. Only one of PAP and CHAP (above) may be negotiated. With PAP, the ID and Password are sent repeatedly to the peer until authentication is acknowledged or the connection is terminated. This is a rather poor security mechanism. It is only performed when the connection is first established. If you want to have your peer authenticate itself, you must .Dq enable pap . in .Pa /etc/ppp/ppp.conf , and have an entry in .Pa /etc/ppp/ppp.secret for the peer (although see the .Dq passwdauth and .Dq set radius options below). .Pp When using PAP as the client, you need only specify .Dq AuthName and .Dq AuthKey in .Pa /etc/ppp/ppp.conf . PAP is accepted by default. .It pred1 Default: Enabled and Accepted. This option decides if Predictor 1 compression will be used by the Compression Control Protocol (CCP). .It protocomp Default: Enabled and Accepted. This option is used to negotiate PFC (Protocol Field Compression), a mechanism where the protocol field number is reduced to one octet rather than two. .It shortseq Default: Enabled and Accepted. This option determines if .Nm will request and accept requests for short .Pq 12 bit sequence numbers when negotiating multi-link mode. This is only applicable if our MRRU is set (thus enabling multi-link). .It vjcomp Default: Enabled and Accepted. This option determines if Van Jacobson header compression will be used. .El .Pp The following options are not actually negotiated with the peer. Therefore, accepting or denying them makes no sense. .Bl -tag -width XX .It idcheck Default: Enabled. When .Nm exchanges low-level LCP, CCP and IPCP configuration traffic, the .Em Identifier field of any replies is expected to be the same as that of the request. By default, .Nm drops any reply packets that do not contain the expected identifier field, reporting the fact at the respective log level. If .Ar idcheck is disabled, .Nm will ignore the identifier field. .It keep-session Default: Disabled. When .Nm runs as a Multi-link server, a different .Nm instance initially receives each connection. After determining that the link belongs to an already existing bundle (controlled by another .Nm invocation), .Nm will transfer the link to that process. .Pp If the link is a tty device or if this option is enabled, .Nm will not exit, but will change its process name to .Dq session owner and wait for the controlling .Nm to finish with the link and deliver a signal back to the idle process. This prevents the confusion that results from .Nm ppp Ns No 's parent considering the link resource available again. .Pp For tty devices that have entries in .Pa /etc/ttys , this is necessary to prevent another .Xr getty 8 from being started, and for program links such as .Xr sshd 8 , it prevents .Xr sshd 8 from exiting due to the death of its child. As .Nm cannot determine its parents requirements (except for the tty case), this option must be enabled manually depending on the circumstances. .It loopback Default: Enabled. When .Ar loopback is enabled, .Nm will automatically loop back packets being sent out with a destination address equal to that of the .Em PPP interface. If disabled, .Nm will send the packet, probably resulting in an ICMP redirect from the other end. It is convenient to have this option enabled when the interface is also the default route as it avoids the necessity of a loopback route. .It passwdauth Default: Disabled. Enabling this option will tell the PAP authentication code to use the password database (see .Xr passwd 5 ) to authenticate the caller if they cannot be found in the .Pa /etc/ppp/ppp.secret file. .Pa /etc/ppp/ppp.secret is always checked first. If you wish to use passwords from .Xr passwd 5 , but also to specify an IP number or label for a given client, use .Dq \&* as the client password in .Pa /etc/ppp/ppp.secret . .It proxy Default: Disabled. Enabling this option will tell .Nm to proxy ARP for the peer. This means that .Nm will make an entry in the ARP table using .Dv HISADDR and the .Dv MAC address of the local network in which .Dv HISADDR appears. The proxy entry cannot be made unless .Dv HISADDR is an address from a LAN. .It proxyall Default: Disabled. Enabling this will tell .Nm to add proxy arp entries for every IP address in all class C or smaller subnets routed via the tun interface. .Pp Proxy arp entries are only made for sticky routes that are added using the .Dq add command. No proxy arp entries are made for the interface address itself (as created by the .Dq set ifaddr command). .It sroutes Default: Enabled. When the .Dq add command is used with the .Dv HISADDR or .Dv MYADDR values, entries are stored in the .Sq stick route list. Each time .Dv HISADDR or .Dv MYADDR change, this list is re-applied to the routing table. .Pp Disabling this option will prevent the re-application of sticky routes, although the .Sq stick route list will still be maintained. .It throughput Default: Enabled. This option tells .Nm to gather throughput statistics. Input and output is sampled over a rolling 5 second window, and current, best and total figures are retained. This data is output when the relevant .Em PPP layer shuts down, and is also available using the .Dq show command. Throughput statistics are available at the .Dq IPCP and .Dq physical levels. .It utmp Default: Enabled. Normally, when a user is authenticated using PAP or CHAP, and when .Nm is running in .Fl direct mode, an entry is made in the utmp and wtmp files for that user. Disabling this option will tell .Nm not to make any utmp or wtmp entries. This is usually only necessary if you require the user to both login and authenticate themselves. .It iface-alias Default: Enabled if .Fl nat is specified. This option simply tells .Nm to add new interface addresses to the interface rather than replacing them. The option can only be enabled if network address translation is enabled .Pq Dq nat enable yes . .Pp With this option enabled, .Nm will pass traffic for old interface addresses through the NAT engine .Pq see Xr libalias 5 , resulting in the ability (in .Fl auto mode) to properly connect the process that caused the PPP link to come up in the first place. .Pp Disabling NAT with .Dq nat enable no will also disable .Sq iface-alias . .El .Pp .It add Ns Xo .Op \&! .Ar dest Ns Op / Ns Ar nn .Op Ar mask .Op Ar gateway .Xc .Ar Dest is the destination IP address. The netmask is specified either as a number of bits with .Ar /nn or as an IP number using .Ar mask . .Ar 0 0 or simply .Ar 0 with no mask refers to the default route. It is also possible to use the literal name .Sq default instead of .Ar 0 . .Ar Gateway is the next hop gateway to get to the given .Ar dest machine/network. Refer to the .Xr route 8 command for further details. .Pp It is possible to use the symbolic names .Sq MYADDR or .Sq HISADDR as the destination, and .Sq HISADDR as the .Ar gateway . .Sq MYADDR is replaced with the interface address and .Sq HISADDR is replaced with the interface destination (peer) address. .Pp If the .Ar add! command is used .Pq note the trailing Dq \&! , then if the route already exists, it will be updated as with the .Sq route change command (see .Xr route 8 for further details). .Pp Routes that contain the .Dq HISADDR or .Dq MYADDR constants are considered .Sq sticky . They are stored in a list (use .Dq show ipcp to see the list), and each time the value of .Dv HISADDR or .Dv MYADDR changes, the appropriate routing table entries are updated. This facility may be disabled using .Dq disable sroutes . .It allow Ar command Op Ar args This command controls access to .Nm and its configuration files. It is possible to allow user-level access, depending on the configuration file label and on the mode that .Nm is being run in. For example, you may wish to configure .Nm so that only user .Sq fred may access label .Sq fredlabel in .Fl background mode. .Pp User id 0 is immune to these commands. .Bl -tag -width XX .It allow user Ns Xo .Op s .Ar logname Ns No ... .Xc By default, only user id 0 is allowed access to .Nm ppp . If this command is used, all of the listed users are allowed access to the section in which the .Dq allow users command is found. The .Sq default section is always checked first (even though it is only ever automatically loaded at startup). Each successive .Dq allow users command overrides the previous one, so it's possible to allow users access to everything except a given label by specifying default users in the .Sq default section, and then specifying a new user list for that label. .Pp If user .Sq * is specified, access is allowed to all users. .It allow mode Ns Xo .Op s .Ar mode Ns No ... .Xc By default, access using any .Nm mode is possible. If this command is used, it restricts the access .Ar modes allowed to load the label under which this command is specified. Again, as with the .Dq allow users command, each .Dq allow modes command overrides any previous settings, and the .Sq default section is always checked first. .Pp Possible modes are: .Sq interactive , .Sq auto , .Sq direct , .Sq dedicated , .Sq ddial , .Sq background and .Sq * . .Pp When running in multi-link mode, a section can be loaded if it allows .Em any of the currently existing line modes. .El .Pp .It nat Ar command Op Ar args This command allows the control of the network address translation (also known as masquerading or IP aliasing) facilities that are built into .Nm ppp . NAT is done on the external interface only, and is unlikely to make sense if used with the .Fl direct flag. .Pp For backwards compatibility, the word .Dq alias may be used in place of .Dq nat . If nat is enabled on your system (it may be omitted at compile time), the following commands are possible: .Bl -tag -width XX .It nat enable yes|no This command either switches network address translation on or turns it off. The .Fl nat command line flag is synonymous with .Dq nat enable yes . .It nat addr Op Ar addr_local addr_alias This command allows data for .Ar addr_alias to be redirected to .Ar addr_local . It is useful if you own a small number of real IP numbers that you wish to map to specific machines behind your gateway. .It nat deny_incoming yes|no If set to yes, this command will refuse all incoming connections by dropping the packets in much the same way as a firewall would. .It nat help|? This command gives a summary of available nat commands. .It nat log yes|no This option causes various NAT statistics and information to be logged to the file .Pa /var/log/alias.log . This file name is likely to change in the near future. .It nat port Ar proto Ar targetIP Ns Xo .No : Ns Ar targetPort Ns .Oo .No - Ns Ar targetPort .Oc Ar aliasPort Ns .Oo .No - Ns Ar aliasPort .Oc Oo Ar remoteIP : Ns .Ar remotePort Ns .Oo .No - Ns Ar remotePort .Oc Oc .Xc This command causes incoming .Ar proto connections to .Ar aliasPort to be redirected to .Ar targetPort on .Ar targetIP . .Ar proto is either .Dq tcp or .Dq udp . .Pp A range of port numbers may be specified as shown above. The ranges must be of the same size. .Pp If .Ar remoteIP is specified, only data coming from that IP number is redirected. .Ar remotePort must either be .Dq 0 .Pq indicating any source port or a range of ports the same size as the other ranges. .Pp This option is useful if you wish to run things like Internet phone on machines behind your gateway, but is limited in that connections to only one interior machine per source machine and target port are possible. .It nat pptp Op Ar addr This tells .Nm to translate any .Em G Ns No eneral .Em R Ns No outing .Em E Ns No encapsulated .Pq Dv IPPROTO_GRE packets using .Ar addr rather than the local interface address. This allows the uses of the .Em P Ns No oint to .Em P Ns No oint .Em T Ns No unneling .Em P Ns No rotocol on a machine on the internal network. .Pp If .Ar addr is not specified, .Dv PPTP address translation is disabled. .It "nat proxy cmd" Ar arg Ns No ... This command tells .Nm to proxy certain connections, redirecting them to a given server. Refer to the description of .Fn PacketAliasProxyRule in .Xr libalias 3 for details of the available commands. .It nat same_ports yes|no When enabled, this command will tell the network address translation engine to attempt to avoid changing the port number on outgoing packets. This is useful if you want to support protocols such as RPC and LPD which require connections to come from a well known port. .It nat use_sockets yes|no When enabled, this option tells the network address translation engine to create a socket so that it can guarantee a correct incoming ftp data or IRC connection. .It nat unregistered_only yes|no Only alter outgoing packets with an unregistered source ad- dress. According to RFC 1918, unregistered source addresses are 10.0.0.0/8, 172.16.0.0/12 and 192.168.0.0/16. .El .Pp These commands are also discussed in the file .Pa README.alias which comes with the source distribution. .Pp .It Op \&! Ns Xo .No bg Ar command .Xc The given .Ar command is executed in the background with the following words replaced: .Bl -tag -width PEER_ENDDISC .It Li AUTHNAME This is replaced with the local .Ar authname value. See the .Dq set authname command below. .It Li ENDDISC This is replaced with the local endpoint discriminator value. See the .Dq set enddisc command below. .It Li HISADDR This is replaced with the peers IP number. .It Li INTERFACE This is replaced with the name of the interface that's in use. .It Li LABEL This is replaced with the last label name used. A label may be specified on the .Nm command line, via the .Dq load or .Dq dial commands and in the .Pa ppp.secret file. .It Li MYADDR This is replaced with the IP number assigned to the local interface. .It Li PEER_ENDDISC This is replaced with the value of the peers endpoint discriminator. .It Li PROCESSID This is replaced with the current process id. .It Li USER This is replaced with the username that has been authenticated with PAP or CHAP. Normally, this variable is assigned only in -direct mode. This value is available irrespective of whether utmp logging is enabled. .El .Pp These substitutions are also done by the .Dq set proctitle command. .Pp If you wish to pause .Nm while the command executes, use the .Dq shell command instead. .It clear physical|ipcp Op current|overall|peak... Clear the specified throughput values at either the .Dq physical or .Dq ipcp level. If .Dq physical is specified, context must be given (see the .Dq link command below). If no second argument is given, all values are cleared. .It clone Ar name Ns Xo .Op \&, Ns Ar name Ns .No ... .Xc Clone the specified link, creating one or more new links according to the .Ar name argument(s). This command must be used from the .Dq link command below unless you've only got a single link (in which case that link becomes the default). Links may be removed using the .Dq remove command below. .Pp The default link name is .Dq deflink . .It close Op lcp|ccp Ns Op \&! If no arguments are given, the relevant protocol layers will be brought down and the link will be closed. If .Dq lcp is specified, the LCP layer is brought down, but .Nm will not bring the link offline. It is subsequently possible to use .Dq term .Pq see below to talk to the peer machine if, for example, something like .Dq slirp is being used. If .Dq ccp is specified, only the relevant compression layer is closed. If the .Dq \&! is used, the compression layer will remain in the closed state, otherwise it will re-enter the STOPPED state, waiting for the peer to initiate further CCP negotiation. In any event, this command does not disconnect the user from .Nm or exit .Nm ppp . See the .Dq quit command below. .It delete Ns Xo .Op \&! .Ar dest .Xc This command deletes the route with the given .Ar dest IP address. If .Ar dest is specified as .Sq ALL , all non-direct entries in the routing table for the current interface, and all .Sq sticky route entries are deleted. If .Ar dest is specified as .Sq default , the default route is deleted. .Pp If the .Ar delete! command is used .Pq note the trailing Dq \&! , .Nm will not complain if the route does not already exist. .It dial|call Op Ar label Ns Xo .No ... .Xc This command is the equivalent of .Dq load label followed by .Dq open , and is provided for backwards compatibility. .It down Op Ar lcp|ccp Bring the relevant layer down ungracefully, as if the underlying layer had become unavailable. It's not considered polite to use this command on a Finite State Machine that's in the OPEN state. If no arguments are supplied, the entire link is closed (or if no context is given, all links are terminated). If .Sq lcp is specified, the .Em LCP layer is terminated but the device is not brought offline and the link is not closed. If .Sq ccp is specified, only the relevant compression layer(s) are terminated. .It help|? Op Ar command Show a list of available commands. If .Ar command is specified, show the usage string for that command. .It iface Ar command Op args This command is used to control the interface used by .Nm ppp . .Ar Command may be one of the following: .Bl -tag -width XX .It iface add Ns Xo .Op \&! .Ar addr Ns Op / Ns Ar bits .Op Ar peer .Xc .It iface add Ns Xo .Op \&! .Ar addr .Ar mask .Ar peer .Xc Add the given .Ar addr mask peer combination to the interface. Instead of specifying .Ar mask , .Ar /bits can be used .Pq with no space between \&it and Ar addr . If the given address already exists, the command fails unless the .Dq \&! is used - in which case the previous interface address entry is overwritten with the new one, allowing a change of netmask or peer address. .Pp If only .Ar addr is specified, .Ar bits defaults to .Dq 32 and .Ar peer defaults to .Dq 255.255.255.255 . This address (the broadcast address) is the only duplicate peer address that .Nm allows. .It iface clear If this command is used while .Nm is in the OPENED state or while in .Fl auto mode, all addresses except for the IPCP negotiated address are deleted from the interface. If .Nm is not in the OPENED state and is not in .Fl auto mode, all interface addresses are deleted. .Pp .It iface delete Ns Xo .Op \&! Ns .No |rm Ns Op \&! .Ar addr .Xc This command deletes the given .Ar addr from the interface. If the .Dq \&! is used, no error is given if the address isn't currently assigned to the interface (and no deletion takes place). .It iface show Shows the current state and current addresses for the interface. It is much the same as running .Dq ifconfig INTERFACE . .It iface help Op Ar sub-command This command, when invoked without .Ar sub-command , will show a list of possible .Dq iface sub-commands and a brief synopsis for each. When invoked with .Ar sub-command , only the synopsis for the given sub-command is shown. .El .It Op data Ns Xo .No link .Ar name Ns Op , Ns Ar name Ns .No ... Ar command Op Ar args .Xc This command may prefix any other command if the user wishes to specify which link the command should affect. This is only applicable after multiple links have been created in Multi-link mode using the .Dq clone command. .Pp .Ar Name specifies the name of an existing link. If .Ar name is a comma separated list, .Ar command is executed on each link. If .Ar name is .Dq * , .Ar command is executed on all links. .It load Op Ar label Ns Xo .No ... .Xc Load the given .Ar label Ns No (s) from the .Pa ppp.conf file. If .Ar label is not given, the .Ar default label is used. .Pp Unless the .Ar label section uses the .Dq set mode , .Dq open or .Dq dial commands, .Nm will not attempt to make an immediate connection. .It open Op lcp|ccp|ipcp This is the opposite of the .Dq close command. All closed links are immediately brought up apart from second and subsequent .Ar demand-dial links - these will come up based on the .Dq set autoload command that has been used. .Pp If the .Dq lcp argument is used while the LCP layer is already open, LCP will be renegotiated. This allows various LCP options to be changed, after which .Dq open lcp can be used to put them into effect. After renegotiating LCP, any agreed authentication will also take place. .Pp If the .Dq ccp argument is used, the relevant compression layer is opened. Again, if it is already open, it will be renegotiated. .Pp If the .Dq ipcp argument is used, the link will be brought up as normal, but if IPCP is already open, it will be renegotiated and the network interface will be reconfigured. .Pp It is probably not good practice to re-open the PPP state machines like this as it's possible that the peer will not behave correctly. It .Em is however useful as a way of forcing the CCP or VJ dictionaries to be reset. .It passwd Ar pass Specify the password required for access to the full .Nm command set. This password is required when connecting to the diagnostic port (see the .Dq set server command). .Ar Pass is specified on the .Dq set server command line. The value of .Ar pass is not logged when .Ar command logging is active, instead, the literal string .Sq ******** is logged. .It quit|bye Op all If .Dq quit is executed from the controlling connection or from a command file, ppp will exit after closing all connections. Otherwise, if the user is connected to a diagnostic socket, the connection is simply dropped. .Pp If the .Ar all argument is given, .Nm will exit despite the source of the command after closing all existing connections. .It remove|rm This command removes the given link. It is only really useful in multi-link mode. A link must be in the .Dv CLOSED state before it is removed. .It rename|mv Ar name This command renames the given link to .Ar name . It will fail if .Ar name is already used by another link. .Pp The default link name is .Sq deflink . Renaming it to .Sq modem , .Sq cuaa0 or .Sq USR may make the log file more readable. .It save This option is not (yet) implemented. .It set Ns Xo .No Op up .Ar var value .Xc This option allows the setting of any of the following variables: .Bl -tag -width XX .It set accmap Ar hex-value ACCMap stands for Asynchronous Control Character Map. This is always negotiated with the peer, and defaults to a value of 00000000 in hex. This protocol is required to defeat hardware that depends on passing certain characters from end to end (such as XON/XOFF etc). .Pp For the XON/XOFF scenario, use .Dq set accmap 000a0000 . .It set Op auth Ns Xo .No key Ar value .Xc This sets the authentication key (or password) used in client mode PAP or CHAP negotiation to the given value. It also specifies the password to be used in the dial or login scripts in place of the .Sq \\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\P sequence, preventing the actual password from being logged. If .Ar command or .Ar chat logging is in effect, .Ar value is logged as .Sq ******** for security reasons. .Pp If the first character of .Ar value is an exclaimation mark .Pq Dq \&! , .Nm treats the remainder of the string as a program that must be executed to determine the .Dq authname and .Dq authkey values. .Pp Ignoring the .Dq \&! , .Ar value is parsed as a program to execute in the same was as the .Dq !bg command above, substituting special names in the same manner. Once executed, .Nm will feed the program three lines of input, each terminated by a newline character: .Bl -bullet .It The host name as sent in the CHAP challenge. .It The challenge string as sent in the CHAP challenge. .It The locally defined .Dq authname . .El .Pp Two lines of output are expected: .Bl -bullet .It The .Dq authname to be sent with the CHAP response. .It The .Dq authkey , which is encrypted with the challenge and request id, the answer being sent in the CHAP response packet. .El .Pp When configuring .Nm in this manner, it's expected that the host challenge is a series of ASCII digits or characters. An encryption device or Secure ID card is usually required to calculate the secret appropriate for the given challenge. .It set authname Ar id This sets the authentication id used in client mode PAP or CHAP negotiation. .Pp If used in .Fl direct mode with CHAP enabled, .Ar id is used in the initial authentication challenge and should normally be set to the local machine name. .It set autoload Xo .Ar min-percent max-percent period .Xc These settings apply only in multi-link mode and default to zero, zero and five respectively. When more than one .Ar demand-dial .Pq also known as Fl auto mode link is available, only the first link is made active when .Nm first reads data from the tun device. The next .Ar demand-dial link will be opened only when the current bundle throughput is at least .Ar max-percent percent of the total bundle bandwidth for .Ar period seconds. When the current bundle throughput decreases to .Ar min-percent percent or less of the total bundle bandwidth for .Ar period seconds, a .Ar demand-dial link will be brought down as long as it's not the last active .Ar demand-dial link. .Pp The default values cause .Ar demand-dial links to simply come up one at a time. .Pp Certain devices cannot determine their physical bandwidth, so it is sometimes necessary to use the .Dq set bandwidth command (described below) to make .Dq set autoload work correctly. .It set bandwidth Ar value This command sets the connection bandwidth in bits per second. .Ar value must be greater than zero. It is currently only used by the .Dq set autoload command above. .It set callback Ar option Ns No ... If no arguments are given, callback is disabled, otherwise, .Nm will request (or in .Fl direct mode, will accept) one of the given .Ar option Ns No s . In client mode, if an .Ar option is NAK'd .Nm will request a different .Ar option , until no options remain at which point .Nm will terminate negotiations (unless .Dq none is one of the specified .Ar option Ns No ). In server mode, .Nm will accept any of the given protocols - but the client .Em must request one of them. If you wish callback to be optional, you must include .Ar none as an option. .Pp The .Ar option Ns No s are as follows (in this order of preference): .Pp .Bl -tag .It auth The callee is expected to decide the callback number based on authentication. If .Nm is the callee, the number should be specified as the fifth field of the peers entry in .Pa /etc/ppp/ppp.secret . .It cbcp Microsofts callback control protocol is used. See .Dq set cbcp below. .Pp If you wish to negotiate .Ar cbcp in client mode but also wish to allow the server to request no callback at CBCP negotiation time, you must specify both .Ar cbcp and .Ar none as callback options. .It E.164 *| Ns Xo .Ar number Ns Op , Ns Ar number Ns .No ... .Xc The caller specifies the .Ar number . If .Nm is the callee, .Ar number should be either a comma separated list of allowable numbers or a .Dq \&* , meaning any number is permitted. If .Nm is the caller, only a single number should be specified. .Pp Note, this option is very unsafe when used with a .Dq \&* as a malicious caller can tell .Nm to call any (possibly international) number without first authenticating themselves. .It none If the peer does not wish to do callback at all, .Nm will accept the fact and continue without callback rather than terminating the connection. This is required (in addition to one or more other callback options) if you wish callback to be optional. .El .Pp .It set cbcp Oo Xo .No *| Ns Ar number Ns No .Oo .No , Ns Ar number Ns .Oc .No ... .Op Ar delay Op Ar retry .Oc .Xc If no arguments are given, CBCP (Microsofts CallBack Control Protocol) is disabled - ie, configuring CBCP in the .Dq set callback command will result in .Nm requesting no callback in the CBCP phase. Otherwise, .Nm attempts to use the given phone .Ar number Ns No (s). .Pp In server mode .Pq Fl direct , .Nm will insist that the client uses one of these numbers, unless .Dq \&* is used in which case the client is expected to specify the number. .Pp In client mode, .Nm will attempt to use one of the given numbers (whichever it finds to be agreeable with the peer), or if .Dq \&* is specified, .Nm will expect the peer to specify the number. .It "set cd off|" Ns Ar seconds Ns Op \&! Normally, .Nm checks for the existence of carrier one second after the login script is complete. If it's not set, .Nm assumes that this is because the device doesn't support carrier (which is true for most .Dq laplink NULL-modem cables), logs the fact and stops checking for carrier. However, some modems take some time to assert the carrier signal, resulting in .Nm ppp Ns No s inability to detect when the link is dropped. .Ar seconds specifies the number of seconds that .Nm should wait after the dial script has finished before deciding if carrier is available or not. .Pp If .Dq off is specified, .Nm will not check for carrier on the device, otherwise .Nm will not proceed to the login script until either carrier is detected or until .Ar seconds has elapsed. .Pp If .Ar seconds is followed immediately by an exclaimation mark .Pq Dq \&! , .Nm will .Em require carrier. If carrier is not detected after .Ar seconds seconds, the link will be disconnected. .Pp For ISDN devices, .Nm will always insist on carrier (the value .Dq off is invalid). Carrier is raised by the i4brbchX device driver only after the call has connected. It is therefore wise to set a reasonable value such as .Ar 6 seconds. .Pp Carrier .Em require Ns No ment is ignored for all other device types - as if set to .Dq off . .It set choked Op Ar timeout This sets the number of seconds that .Nm will keep a choked output queue before dropping all pending output packets. If .Ar timeout is less than or equal to zero or if .Ar timeout isn't specified, it is set to the default value of .Em 120 seconds . .Pp A choked output queue occurs when .Nm has read a certain number of packets from the local network for transmission, but cannot send the data due to link failure (the peer is busy etc.). .Nm will not read packets indefinitely. Instead, it reads up to .Em 30 packets (or .Em 30 No + .Em nlinks No * .Em 2 packets in multi-link mode), then stops reading the network interface until either .Ar timeout seconds have passed or at least one packet has been sent. .Pp If .Ar timeout seconds pass, all pending output packets are dropped. .It set ctsrts|crtscts on|off This sets hardware flow control. Hardware flow control is .Ar on by default. .It set deflate Ar out-winsize Op Ar in-winsize This sets the DEFLATE algorithms default outgoing and incoming window sizes. Both .Ar out-winsize and .Ar in-winsize must be values between .Em 8 and .Em 15 . If .Ar in-winsize is specified, .Nm will insist that this window size is used and will not accept any other values from the peer. .It set dns Op Ar primary Op Ar secondary This command specifies DNS overrides for the .Dq accept dns command. Refer to the .Dq accept command description above for details. This command does not affect the IP numbers requested using .Dq enable dns . .It set device|line Xo .Ar value Ns No ... .Xc This sets the device(s) to which .Nm will talk to the given .Dq value . .Pp All ISDN and serial device names are expected to begin with .Pa /dev/ . ISDN devices are usually called .Pa i4brbchX and serial devices are usually called .Pa cuaaX . .Pp If .Dq value does not begin with .Pa /dev/ , it must either begin with an exclamation mark .Pq Dq \&! or be of the format .Dq host:port Ns Op Ns /proto . .Pp If it begins with an exclamation mark, the rest of the device name is treated as a program name, and that program is executed when the device is opened. Standard input, output and error are fed back to .Nm and are read and written as if they were a regular device. .Pp If a .Dq host:port Ns Op /tcp|/udp specification is given, .Nm will attempt to connect to the given .Dq host on the given .Dq port . If a tcp or udp specification is not given, the default is tcp. Refer to the section on .Em PPP OVER TCP and UDP above for further details. .Pp If multiple .Dq values are specified, .Nm will attempt to open each one in turn until it succeeds or runs out of devices. .It set dial Ar chat-script This specifies the chat script that will be used to dial the other side. See also the .Dq set login command below. Refer to .Xr chat 8 and to the example configuration files for details of the chat script format. It is possible to specify some special .Sq values in your chat script as follows: .Bd -unfilled -offset indent .It Li \\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\c When used as the last character in a .Sq send string, this indicates that a newline should not be appended. .It Li \\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\d When the chat script encounters this sequence, it delays two seconds. .It Li \\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\p When the chat script encounters this sequence, it delays for one quarter of a second. .It Li \\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\n This is replaced with a newline character. .It Li \\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\r This is replaced with a carriage return character. .It Li \\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\s This is replaced with a space character. .It Li \\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\t This is replaced with a tab character. .It Li \\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\T This is replaced by the current phone number (see .Dq set phone below). .It Li \\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\P This is replaced by the current .Ar authkey value (see .Dq set authkey above). .It Li \\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\U This is replaced by the current .Ar authname value (see .Dq set authname above). .Ed .Pp Note that two parsers will examine these escape sequences, so in order to have the .Sq chat parser see the escape character, it is necessary to escape it from the .Sq command parser . This means that in practice you should use two escapes, for example: .Bd -literal -offset indent set dial "... ATDT\\\\T CONNECT" .Ed .Pp It is also possible to execute external commands from the chat script. To do this, the first character of the expect or send string is an exclamation mark .Pq Dq \&! . When the command is executed, standard input and standard output are directed to the open device (see the .Dq set device command), and standard error is read by .Nm and substituted as the expect or send string. If .Nm is running in interactive mode, file descriptor 3 is attached to .Pa /dev/tty . .Pp For example (wrapped for readability); .Bd -literal -offset indent set login "TIMEOUT 5 \\"\\" \\"\\" login:--login: ppp \e word: ppp \\"!sh \\\\\\\\-c \\\\\\"echo \\\\\\\\-n label: >&2\\\\\\"\\" \e \\"!/bin/echo in\\" HELLO" .Ed .Pp would result in the following chat sequence (output using the .Sq set log local chat command before dialing): .Bd -literal -offset indent Dial attempt 1 of 1 dial OK! Chat: Expecting: Chat: Sending: Chat: Expecting: login:--login: Chat: Wait for (5): login: Chat: Sending: ppp Chat: Expecting: word: Chat: Wait for (5): word: Chat: Sending: ppp Chat: Expecting: !sh \\-c "echo \\-n label: >&2" Chat: Exec: sh -c "echo -n label: >&2" Chat: Wait for (5): !sh \\-c "echo \\-n label: >&2" --> label: Chat: Exec: /bin/echo in Chat: Sending: Chat: Expecting: HELLO Chat: Wait for (5): HELLO login OK! .Ed .Pp Note (again) the use of the escape character, allowing many levels of nesting. Here, there are four parsers at work. The first parses the original line, reading it as three arguments. The second parses the third argument, reading it as 11 arguments. At this point, it is important that the .Dq \&- signs are escaped, otherwise this parser will see them as constituting an expect-send-expect sequence. When the .Dq \&! character is seen, the execution parser reads the first command as three arguments, and then .Xr sh 1 itself expands the argument after the .Fl c . As we wish to send the output back to the modem, in the first example we redirect our output to file descriptor 2 (stderr) so that .Nm itself sends and logs it, and in the second example, we just output to stdout, which is attached directly to the modem. .Pp This, of course means that it is possible to execute an entirely external .Dq chat command rather than using the internal one. See .Xr chat 8 for a good alternative. .Pp The external command that is executed is subjected to the same special word expansions as the .Dq !bg command. .It set enddisc Op label|IP|MAC|magic|psn value This command sets our local endpoint discriminator. If set prior to LCP negotiation, and if no .Dq disable enddisc command has been used, .Nm will send the information to the peer using the LCP endpoint discriminator option. The following discriminators may be set: .Bd -unfilled -offset indent .It Li label The current label is used. .It Li IP Our local IP number is used. As LCP is negotiated prior to IPCP, it is possible that the IPCP layer will subsequently change this value. If it does, the endpoint discriminator stays at the old value unless manually reset. .It Li MAC This is similar to the .Ar IP option above, except that the MAC address associated with the local IP number is used. If the local IP number is not resident on any Ethernet interface, the command will fail. .Pp As the local IP number defaults to whatever the machine host name is, .Dq set enddisc mac is usually done prior to any .Dq set ifaddr commands. .It Li magic A 20 digit random number is used. Care should be taken when using magic numbers as restarting .Nm or creating a link using a different .Nm invocation will also use a different magic number and will therefore not be recognised by the peer as belonging to the same bundle. This makes it unsuitable for .Fl direct connections. .It Li psn Ar value The given .Ar value is used. .Ar Value should be set to an absolute public switched network number with the country code first. .Ed .Pp If no arguments are given, the endpoint discriminator is reset. .It set escape Ar value... This option is similar to the .Dq set accmap option above. It allows the user to specify a set of characters that will be .Sq escaped as they travel across the link. .It set filter dial|alive|in|out Ar rule-no Xo .No permit|deny|clear| Ns Ar rule-no .Op \&! .Oo Op host .Ar src_addr Ns Op / Ns Ar width .Op Ar dst_addr Ns Op / Ns Ar width .Oc Oo tcp|udp|ospf|igmp|icmp Op src lt|eq|gt Ar port .Op dst lt|eq|gt Ar port .Op estab .Op syn .Op finrst .Oc .Xc .Nm supports four filter sets. The .Em alive filter specifies packets that keep the connection alive - resetting the idle timer. The .Em dial filter specifies packets that cause .Nm to dial when in .Fl auto mode. The .Em in filter specifies packets that are allowed to travel into the machine and the .Em out filter specifies packets that are allowed out of the machine. .Pp Filtering is done prior to any IP alterations that might be done by the NAT engine on outgoing packets and after any IP alterations that might be done by the NAT engine on incoming packets. By default all filter sets allow all packets to pass. Rules are processed in order according to .Ar rule-no (unless skipped by specifying a rule number as the .Ar action ) . Up to 40 rules may be given for each set. If a packet doesn't match any of the rules in a given set, it is discarded. In the case of .Em in and .Em out filters, this means that the packet is dropped. In the case of .Em alive filters it means that the packet will not reset the idle timer and in the case of .Em dial filters it means that the packet will not trigger a dial. A packet failing to trigger a dial will be dropped rather than queued. Refer to the section on .Sx PACKET FILTERING above for further details. .It set hangup Ar chat-script This specifies the chat script that will be used to reset the device before it is closed. It should not normally be necessary, but can be used for devices that fail to reset themselves properly on close. .It set help|? Op Ar command This command gives a summary of available set commands, or if .Ar command is specified, the command usage is shown. .It set ifaddr Oo Ar myaddr Ns .Op / Ns Ar \&nn .Oo Ar hisaddr Ns Op / Ns Ar \&nn .Oo Ar netmask .Op Ar triggeraddr .Oc Oc .Oc This command specifies the IP addresses that will be used during IPCP negotiation. Addresses are specified using the format .Pp .Dl a.b.c.d/nn .Pp Where .Dq a.b.c.d is the preferred IP, but .Ar nn specifies how many bits of the address we will insist on. If .No / Ns Ar nn is omitted, it defaults to .Dq /32 unless the IP address is 0.0.0.0 in which case it defaults to .Dq /0 . .Pp If you wish to assign a dynamic IP number to the peer, .Ar hisaddr may also be specified as a range of IP numbers in the format .Bd -literal -offset indent .Ar \&IP Ns Oo \&- Ns Ar \&IP Ns Xo .Oc Oo , Ns Ar \&IP Ns .Op \&- Ns Ar \&IP Ns .Oc No ... .Xc .Ed .Pp for example: .Pp .Dl set ifaddr 10.0.0.1 10.0.1.2-10.0.1.10,10.0.1.20 .Pp will only negotiate .Dq 10.0.0.1 as the local IP number, but may assign any of the given 10 IP numbers to the peer. If the peer requests one of these numbers, and that number is not already in use, .Nm will grant the peers request. This is useful if the peer wants to re-establish a link using the same IP number as was previously allocated (thus maintaining any existing tcp or udp connections). .Pp If the peer requests an IP number that's either outside of this range or is already in use, .Nm will suggest a random unused IP number from the range. .Pp If .Ar triggeraddr is specified, it is used in place of .Ar myaddr in the initial IPCP negotiation. However, only an address in the .Ar myaddr range will be accepted. This is useful when negotiating with some .Dv PPP implementations that will not assign an IP number unless their peer requests .Dq 0.0.0.0 . .Pp It should be noted that in .Fl auto mode, .Nm will configure the interface immediately upon reading the .Dq set ifaddr line in the config file. In any other mode, these values are just used for IPCP negotiations, and the interface isn't configured until the IPCP layer is up. .Pp Note that the .Ar HISADDR argument may be overridden by the third field in the .Pa ppp.secret file once the client has authenticated itself .Pq if PAP or CHAP are Dq enabled . Refer to the .Sx AUTHENTICATING INCOMING CONNECTIONS section for details. .Pp In all cases, if the interface is already configured, .Nm will try to maintain the interface IP numbers so that any existing bound sockets will remain valid. .It set ccpretry|ccpretries Oo Ar timeout .Op Ar reqtries Op Ar trmtries .Oc .It set chapretry|chapretries Oo Ar timeout .Op Ar reqtries .Oc .It set ipcpretry|ipcpretries Oo Ar timeout .Op Ar reqtries Op Ar trmtries .Oc .It set lcpretry|lcpretries Oo Ar timeout .Op Ar reqtries Op Ar trmtries .Oc .It set papretry|papretries Oo Ar timeout .Op Ar reqtries .Oc These commands set the number of seconds that .Nm will wait before resending Finite State Machine (FSM) Request packets. The default .Ar timeout for all FSMs is 3 seconds (which should suffice in most cases). .Pp If .Ar reqtries is specified, it tells .Nm how many configuration request attempts it should make while receiving no reply from the peer before giving up. The default is 5 attempts for CCP, LCP and IPCP and 3 attempts for PAP and CHAP. .Pp If .Ar trmtries is specified, it tells .Nm how many terminate requests should be sent before giving up waiting for the peers response. The default is 3 attempts. Authentication protocols are not terminated and it is therefore invalid to specify .Ar trmtries for PAP or CHAP. .Pp In order to avoid negotiations with the peer that will never converge, .Nm will only send at most 3 times the configured number of .Ar reqtries in any given negotiation session before giving up and closing that layer. .It set log Xo .Op local .Op +|- Ns .Ar value Ns No ... .Xc This command allows the adjustment of the current log level. Refer to the Logging Facility section for further details. .It set login Ar chat-script This .Ar chat-script compliments the dial-script. If both are specified, the login script will be executed after the dial script. Escape sequences available in the dial script are also available here. .It set lqrperiod Ar frequency This command sets the .Ar frequency in seconds at which .Em LQR or .Em ECHO LQR packets are sent. The default is 30 seconds. You must also use the .Dq enable lqr command if you wish to send LQR requests to the peer. .It set mode Ar interactive|auto|ddial|background This command allows you to change the .Sq mode of the specified link. This is normally only useful in multi-link mode, but may also be used in uni-link mode. .Pp It is not possible to change a link that is .Sq direct or .Sq dedicated . .Pp Note: If you issue the command .Dq set mode auto , and have network address translation enabled, it may be useful to .Dq enable iface-alias afterwards. This will allow .Nm to do the necessary address translations to enable the process that triggers the connection to connect once the link is up despite the peer assigning us a new (dynamic) IP address. .It set mrru Op Ar value Setting this option enables Multi-link PPP negotiations, also known as Multi-link Protocol or MP. There is no default MRRU (Maximum Reconstructed Receive Unit) value. If no argument is given, multi-link mode is disabled. .It set mru Op Ar value The default MRU (Maximum Receive Unit) is 1500. If it is increased, the other side *may* increase its mtu. There is no point in decreasing the MRU to below the default as the .Em PPP protocol *must* be able to accept packets of at least 1500 octets. If no argument is given, 1500 is assumed. .It set mtu Op Ar value The default MTU is 1500. At negotiation time, .Nm will accept whatever MRU or MRRU that the peer wants (assuming it's not less than 296 bytes). If the MTU is set, .Nm will not accept MRU/MRRU values less than .Ar value . When negotiations are complete, the MTU is assigned to the interface, even if the peer requested a higher value MRU/MRRU. This can be useful for limiting your packet size (giving better bandwidth sharing at the expense of more header data). .Pp If no .Ar value is given, 1500, or whatever the peer asks for is used. .It set nbns Op Ar x.x.x.x Op Ar y.y.y.y This option allows the setting of the Microsoft NetBIOS name server values to be returned at the peers request. If no values are given, .Nm will reject any such requests. .It set openmode active|passive Op Ar delay By default, .Ar openmode is always .Ar active with a one second .Ar delay . That is, .Nm will always initiate LCP/IPCP/CCP negotiation one second after the line comes up. If you want to wait for the peer to initiate negotiations, you can use the value .Ar passive . If you want to initiate negotiations immediately or after more than one second, the appropriate .Ar delay may be specified here in seconds. .It set parity odd|even|none|mark This allows the line parity to be set. The default value is .Ar none . .It set phone Ar telno Ns Xo .Oo \&| Ns Ar backupnumber .Oc Ns ... Ns Oo : Ns Ar nextnumber .Oc Ns ... .Xc This allows the specification of the phone number to be used in place of the \\\\T string in the dial and login chat scripts. Multiple phone numbers may be given separated either by a pipe .Pq Dq \&| or a colon .Pq Dq \&: . .Pp Numbers after the pipe are only dialed if the dial or login script for the previous number failed. .Pp Numbers after the colon are tried sequentially, irrespective of the reason the line was dropped. .Pp If multiple numbers are given, .Nm will dial them according to these rules until a connection is made, retrying the maximum number of times specified by .Dq set redial below. In .Fl background mode, each number is attempted at most once. .It set Op proc Ns Xo .No title Op Ar value .Xc The current process title as displayed by .Xr ps 1 is changed according to .Ar value . If .Ar value is not specified, the original process title is restored. All the word replacements done by the shell commands (see the .Dq bg command above) are done here too. .Pp Note, if USER is required in the process title, the .Dq set proctitle command must appear in .Pa ppp.linkup , as it is not known when the commands in .Pa ppp.conf are executed. .It set radius Op Ar config-file This command enables RADIUS support (if it's compiled in). .Ar config-file refers to the radius client configuration file as described in .Xr radius.conf 5 . If PAP or CHAP are .Dq enable Ns No d , .Nm behaves as a .Em \&N Ns No etwork .Em \&A Ns No ccess .Em \&S Ns No erver and uses the configured RADIUS server to authenticate rather than authenticating from the .Pa ppp.secret file or from the passwd database. .Pp If neither PAP or CHAP are enabled, .Dq set radius will do nothing. .Pp .Nm uses the following attributes from the RADIUS reply: .Bl -tag -width XXX -offset XXX .It RAD_FRAMED_IP_ADDRESS The peer IP address is set to the given value. .It RAD_FRAMED_IP_NETMASK The tun interface netmask is set to the given value. .It RAD_FRAMED_MTU If the given MTU is less than the peers MRU as agreed during LCP negotiation, *and* it is less that any configured MTU (see the .Dq set mru command), the tun interface MTU is set to the given value. .It RAD_FRAMED_COMPRESSION If the received compression type is .Dq 1 , .Nm will request VJ compression during IPCP negotiations despite any .Dq disable vj configuration command. .It RAD_FRAMED_ROUTE The received string is expected to be in the format .Ar dest Ns Op / Ns Ar bits .Ar gw .Op Ar metrics . Any specified metrics are ignored. .Dv MYADDR and .Dv HISADDR are understood as valid values for .Ar dest and .Ar gw , .Dq default can be used for .Ar dest to sepcify the default route, and .Dq 0.0.0.0 is understood to be the same as .Dq default for .Ar dest and .Dv HISADDR for .Ar gw . .Pp For example, a returned value of .Dq 1.2.3.4/24 0.0.0.0 1 2 -1 3 400 would result in a routing table entry to the 1.2.3.0/24 network via .Dv HISADDR and a returned value of .Dq 0.0.0.0 0.0.0.0 or .Dq default HISADDR would result in a default route to .Dv HISADDR . .Pp All RADIUS routes are applied after any sticky routes are applied, making RADIUS routes override configured routes. This also applies for RADIUS routes that don't include the .Dv MYADDR or .Dv HISADDR keywords. .Pp .El Values received from the RADIUS server may be viewed using .Dq show bundle . .It set reconnect Ar timeout ntries Should the line drop unexpectedly (due to loss of CD or LQR failure), a connection will be re-established after the given .Ar timeout . The line will be re-connected at most .Ar ntries times. .Ar Ntries defaults to zero. A value of .Ar random for .Ar timeout will result in a variable pause, somewhere between 1 and 30 seconds. .It set recvpipe Op Ar value This sets the routing table RECVPIPE value. The optimum value is just over twice the MTU value. If .Ar value is unspecified or zero, the default kernel controlled value is used. .It set redial Ar secs Ns Xo .Oo + Ns Ar inc Ns .Op - Ns Ar max Ns .Oc Op . Ns Ar next .Op Ar attempts .Xc .Nm can be instructed to attempt to redial .Ar attempts times. If more than one phone number is specified (see .Dq set phone above), a pause of .Ar next is taken before dialing each number. A pause of .Ar secs is taken before starting at the first number again. A literal value of .Dq Li random may be used here in place of .Ar secs and .Ar next , causing a random delay of between 1 and 30 seconds. .Pp If .Ar inc is specified, its value is added onto .Ar secs each time .Nm tries a new number. .Ar secs will only be incremented at most .Ar max times. .Ar max defaults to 10. .Pp Note, the .Ar secs delay will be effective, even after .Ar attempts has been exceeded, so an immediate manual dial may appear to have done nothing. If an immediate dial is required, a .Dq \&! should immediately follow the .Dq open keyword. See the .Dq open description above for further details. .It set sendpipe Op Ar value This sets the routing table SENDPIPE value. The optimum value is just over twice the MTU value. If .Ar value is unspecified or zero, the default kernel controlled value is used. .It set server|socket Ar TcpPort|LocalName|none password Op Ar mask This command tells .Nm to listen on the given socket or .Sq diagnostic port for incoming command connections. .Pp The word .Ar none instructs .Nm to close any existing socket. .Pp If you wish to specify a local domain socket, .Ar LocalName must be specified as an absolute file name, otherwise it is assumed to be the name or number of a TCP port. You must specify the octal umask that should be used with local domain sockets as a four character octal number beginning with .Sq 0 . Refer to .Xr umask 2 for umask details. Refer to .Xr services 5 for details of how to translate TCP port names. .Pp You must also specify the password that must be entered by the client (using the .Dq passwd command above) when connecting to this socket. If the password is specified as an empty string, no password is required for connecting clients. .Pp When specifying a local domain socket, the first .Dq %d sequence found in the socket name will be replaced with the current interface unit number. This is useful when you wish to use the same profile for more than one connection. .Pp In a similar manner TCP sockets may be prefixed with the .Dq + character, in which case the current interface unit number is added to the port number. .Pp When using .Nm with a server socket, the .Xr pppctl 8 command is the preferred mechanism of communications. Currently, .Xr telnet 1 can also be used, but link encryption may be implemented in the future, so .Xr telnet 1 should not be relied upon. .It set speed Ar value This sets the speed of the serial device. If speed is specified as .Dq sync , .Nm treats the device as a synchronous device. .Pp Certain device types will know whether they should be specified as synchronous or asynchronous. These devices will override incorrect settings and log a warning to this effect. .It set stopped Op Ar LCPseconds Op Ar CCPseconds If this option is set, .Nm will time out after the given FSM (Finite State Machine) has been in the stopped state for the given number of .Dq seconds . This option may be useful if the peer sends a terminate request, but never actually closes the connection despite our sending a terminate acknowledgement. This is also useful if you wish to .Dq set openmode passive and time out if the peer doesn't send a Configure Request within the given time. Use .Dq set log +lcp +ccp to make .Nm log the appropriate state transitions. .Pp The default value is zero, where .Nm doesn't time out in the stopped state. .Pp This value should not be set to less than the openmode delay (see .Dq set openmode above). .It set timeout Ar idleseconds Op Ar mintimeout This command allows the setting of the idle timer. Refer to the section titled .Sx SETTING THE IDLE TIMER for further details. .Pp If .Ar mintimeout is specified, .Nm will never idle out before the link has been up for at least that number of seconds. .It set urgent Xo .Op tcp|udp .Oo Op +|- Ns .Ar port .Oc No ... .Xc This command controls the ports that .Nm prioritizes when transmitting data. The default priority TCP ports are ports 21 (ftp control), 22 (ssh), 23 (telnet), 513 (login), 514 (shell), 543 (klogin) and 544 (kshell). There are no priority UDP ports by default. See .Xr services 5 for details. .Pp If neither .Dq tcp or .Dq udp are specified, .Dq tcp is assumed. .Pp If no .Ar port Ns No s are given, the priority port lists are cleared (although if .Dq tcp or .Dq udp is specified, only that list is cleared). If the first .Ar port argument is prefixed with a plus .Pq Dq \&+ or a minus .Pq Dq \&- , the current list is adjusted, otherwise the list is reassigned. .Ar port Ns No s prefixed with a plus or not prefixed at all are added to the list and .Ar port Ns No s prefixed with a minus are removed from the list. .It set vj slotcomp on|off This command tells .Nm whether it should attempt to negotiate VJ slot compression. By default, slot compression is turned .Ar on . .It set vj slots Ar nslots This command sets the initial number of slots that .Nm will try to negotiate with the peer when VJ compression is enabled (see the .Sq enable command above). It defaults to a value of 16. .Ar Nslots must be between .Ar 4 and .Ar 16 inclusive. .El .Pp .It shell|! Op Ar command If .Ar command is not specified a shell is invoked according to the .Dv SHELL environment variable. Otherwise, the given .Ar command is executed. Word replacement is done in the same way as for the .Dq !bg command as described above. .Pp Use of the ! character requires a following space as with any of the other commands. You should note that this command is executed in the foreground - .Nm will not continue running until this process has exited. Use the .Dv bg command if you wish processing to happen in the background. .It show Ar var This command allows the user to examine the following: .Bl -tag -width XX .It show bundle Show the current bundle settings. .It show ccp Show the current CCP compression statistics. .It show compress Show the current VJ compression statistics. .It show escape Show the current escape characters. .It show filter Op Ar name List the current rules for the given filter. If .Ar name is not specified, all filters are shown. .It show hdlc Show the current HDLC statistics. .It show help|? Give a summary of available show commands. .It show iface Show the current interface information .Pq the same \&as Dq iface show . .It show ipcp Show the current IPCP statistics. .It show layers Show the protocol layers currently in use. .It show lcp Show the current LCP statistics. .It show Op data Ns Xo .No link .Xc Show high level link information. .It show links Show a list of available logical links. .It show log Show the current log values. .It show mem Show current memory statistics. .It show physical Show low level link information. .It show mp Show Multi-link information. .It show proto Show current protocol totals. .It show route Show the current routing tables. .It show stopped Show the current stopped timeouts. .It show timer Show the active alarm timers. .It show version Show the current version number of .Nm ppp . .El .Pp .It term Go into terminal mode. Characters typed at the keyboard are sent to the device. Characters read from the device are displayed on the screen. When a remote .Em PPP peer is detected, .Nm automatically enables Packet Mode and goes back into command mode. .El .Pp .Sh MORE DETAILS .Bl -bullet .It Read the example configuration files. They are a good source of information. .It Use .Dq help , .Dq nat ? , .Dq enable ? , .Dq set ? and .Dq show ? to get online information about what's available. .It The following URLs contain useful information: .Bl -bullet -compact .It http://www.FreeBSD.org/FAQ/userppp.html .It http://www.FreeBSD.org/handbook/userppp.html .El .Pp .El .Pp .Sh FILES .Nm refers to four files: .Pa ppp.conf , .Pa ppp.linkup , .Pa ppp.linkdown and .Pa ppp.secret . These files are placed in the .Pa /etc/ppp directory. .Bl -tag -width XX .It Pa /etc/ppp/ppp.conf System default configuration file. .It Pa /etc/ppp/ppp.secret An authorisation file for each system. .It Pa /etc/ppp/ppp.linkup A file to check when .Nm establishes a network level connection. .It Pa /etc/ppp/ppp.linkdown A file to check when .Nm closes a network level connection. .It Pa /var/log/ppp.log Logging and debugging information file. Note, this name is specified in .Pa /etc/syslogd.conf . See .Xr syslog.conf 5 for further details. .It Pa /var/spool/lock/LCK..* tty port locking file. Refer to .Xr uucplock 3 for further details. .It Pa /var/run/tunN.pid The process id (pid) of the .Nm program connected to the tunN device, where .Sq N is the number of the device. .It Pa /var/run/ttyXX.if The tun interface used by this port. Again, this file is only created in .Fl background , .Fl auto and .Fl ddial modes. .It Pa /etc/services Get port number if port number is using service name. .It Pa /var/run/ppp-authname-class-value In multi-link mode, local domain sockets are created using the peer authentication name .Pq Sq authname , the peer endpoint discriminator class .Pq Sq class and the peer endpoint discriminator value .Pq Sq value . As the endpoint discriminator value may be a binary value, it is turned to HEX to determine the actual file name. .Pp This socket is used to pass links between different instances of .Nm ppp . .El .Pp .Sh SEE ALSO .Xr at 1 , .Xr ftp 1 , .Xr gzip 1 , .Xr hostname 1 , .Xr login 1 , .Xr tcpdump 1 , .Xr telnet 1 , .Xr libalias 3 , .Xr syslog 3 , .Xr uucplock 3 , .Xr crontab 5 , .Xr group 5 , .Xr passwd 5 , .Xr radius.conf 5 , .Xr resolv.conf 5 , .Xr syslog.conf 5 , .Xr adduser 8 , .Xr chat 8 , .Xr getty 8 , .Xr inetd 8 , .Xr init 8 , .Xr isdn 8 , .Xr named 8 , .Xr ping 8 , .Xr pppctl 8 , .Xr pppd 8 , .Xr route 8 , .Xr sshd 8 , .Xr syslogd 8 , .Xr traceroute 8 , .Xr vipw 8 .Sh HISTORY This program was originally written by .An Toshiharu OHNO Aq tony-o@iij.ad.jp , and was submitted to .Fx 2.0.5 by .An Atsushi Murai Aq amurai@spec.co.jp . .Pp It was substantially modified during 1997 by .An Brian Somers Aq brian@Awfulhak.org , and was ported to .Ox in November that year (just after the 2.2 release). .Pp Most of the code was rewritten by .An Brian Somers in early 1998 when multi-link ppp support was added.