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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

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