Setting Up the Client

The pppoec daemon, on the client, discovers an access concentrator that is able to offer services. It obtains a unique session ID from the chosen access concentrator. Also, it forks a pppd daemon to perform session stage functions as mentioned in RFC 2516.

To run pppoec, run one of the following commands on the command line:

pppoec -i interface-name

or

pppoec -i interface-name [-c config-file] [-d debug-level] [-l log-file] [-r retry-time]

[-i interface-name] specifies the name of the network interface to be used for the PPPoE session.

[-c config-file] specifies the name of the configuration file to be used by pppoec. The default file is /etc/ppp/pppoec.conf.

[-d debug-level] specifies the various debug levels. See Table 3-1 “Debug Levels”for more information.

[-l log-file] specifies the name of the log file to be used for logging messages. The default log file is /var/adm/pppoec.log.

[-r retry-time] specifies the time in seconds, after which a PADI or PADR packet is retransmitted when there is no response from the access concentrator. The default value is 3.

Following are examples of pppoec usage:

/usr/bin/pppoec -i lan0

/usr/bin/pppoec -i lan4 -c /tmp/ppp/pppoec.conf -d 2 -l /tmp/pppoec.log -r 5

For more information, type man 1 pppoec at the HP-UX prompt. See “Client Log File” for more information on how pppoec logs messages to its log file.

	IMPORTANT: The [-i interface-name] option is mandatory. You must specify a valid interface name to be used for the PPPoE session. Do not use SIGKILL to terminate the pppoec daemon. Instead, use SIGTERM.