Point-to-Point Protocol daemon

pppd
Original author(s) Paul Mackerras, based on earlier work by Drew Perkins, Brad Clements, Karl Fox, Greg Christy, and Brad Parker
Stable release 2.4.7 / August 9, 2014
Operating system Linux, Solaris
Type Internet
License BSD-like licenses. Not all of them apply to all parts of pppd
Website http://ppp.samba.org

PPPD is the Point-to-Point Protocol daemon which is used to manage network connections between two nodes on Unix-like operating systems. It is configured using command-line arguments and configuration files.

While it has initially been used to manage only dial-up access, it is also used to manage broadband connections such as DSL, if Point-to-Point Protocol over Ethernet (PPPoE) or Point-to-Point Protocol over ATM (PPPoA) is used.

The role of pppd is managing PPP session establishment and session termination. During session establishment, pppd has the role of:

pppd terminates a PPP link when:

Some newer versions of pppd are also capable of handling Dial-on-demand routing, where pppd sets up a virtual network, captures the packages it receives and establishes a PPP connection and forwards the captured and not-yet transmitted packages over the link.

Frontends and configurators

References

  1. pppconfig(8)  Debian Maintenance Commands Manual

Further reading

External links

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