5.7. PPPoE device type commands

This chapter describes commands that are specific to PPPoE type links. These commands apply to the currently active link, and are only valid if the currently active link has type pppoe.

PPPoE requires two pieces of configuration information: the name of the Ethernet interface to use, and a service name, which should be supplied by your ISP. If you do not have a service name, then the empty string (the default) often suffices.

DSL Forum vendor-specific Circuit-ID/Remote-ID PPPoE tags extraction supported in server mode.

set pppoe iface interface-name

Set the name of the Ethernet interface to use. PPPoE does not affect normal use of the interface.

set pppoe service service-name

Sets the requested PPPoE service name. Setting service name to "*" on link with allowed incoming connections allows to accept incoming connection requests with any service name specified.

Since FreeBSD 6.3-STABLE/7.0-STABLE of 2008-01-30 it is possible to use "AC-Name\Service-Name" syntax to request specified access concentrator for outgoing connection.

The default is "*".

set pppoe acname name

Set name of this PPPoE access concentrator to be sent to clients. If not specified, local hostname will be used.

set pppoe mac-format format

Set RADIUS server attribute 31 MAC format as:

unformatted	aabbccddeeff
unix-like	aa:bb:cc:dd:ee:ff
cisco-like	aabb.ccdd.eeff
ietf		aa-bb-cc-dd-ee-ff

The default is "unformatted".

set pppoe max-payload size

Set PPP-Max-Payload PPPoE tag (RFC4638). This option works when mpd5 acts as PPPoE client only. This option takes precedence over both set link mtu and set link mru options, if PPPoE server agrees with our setting.