Date: Mon, 26 Mar 2001 18:10:18 -0800 From: Dima Dorfman <dima@unixfreak.org> To: Tony Sterrett <Tony.Sterrett@Sun.COM> Cc: doc@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Confusion in Docs Message-ID: <20010327021019.11CFB3E09@bazooka.unixfreak.org> In-Reply-To: <200103262001.MAA15066@postoffice.West.Sun.COM>; from Tony.Sterrett@Sun.COM on "Mon, 26 Mar 2001 12:01:57 -0800 (PST)"
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Tony Sterrett <Tony.Sterrett@Sun.COM> writes: > Hello: > I'm a but confused over the documentation in FreeBSD Handbook Chapter > 16. PPP and SLIP and FreeBSD Hypertext Man Pages section 8 PPPOED(8). > > It seem that the first document implies that you are able to invoke > pppoe with a ppp statement > > That is: > # ppp -ddial name_of_service_provider > > > However PPPOE(8) gives a different means of using pppoe. > > That is : > pppoed [-Fd] [-P pidfile] [-a name] [-e exec] [-n ngdebug] [-p provider] > interface There is no pppoe(8). You accidently typed ``pppoed'' (note the 'd'), and it gave you the manual for the PPPOE server. The ppp(8) syntax in the Handbook is correct as far as I can tell (I don't use pppoe right now, but it looks reasonable). Regards Dima Dorfman dima@unixfreak.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-doc" in the body of the message
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