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NAME

       smpppd - SuSE Meta PPP Daemon

DESCRIPTION

       smpppd is a daemon that controls several internet connections.

       Use  a  frontend  like cinternet , qinternet or kinternet to control the connections and retrieve status informations.  Those frontends can
       also run on different hosts.

       The configuration of the dialup connections is done by YaST2 but there are some additional options available in the file /etc/smpppd.conf.

       smpppd is not intended for direct use.  Use rcsmpppd instead.

OPTIONS

       These options are recognized by smpppd.

       --detach
	      Detach from the controlling terminal.  This is the default.

       --nodeatch
	      Don't detach from the controlling terminal.

       -d, --debug
	      Turn on debugging.

       --version
	      Show program version and exit.

       --help Show help information and exit.

BUGS

       ISDN support is poor.

SIGNALS

       SIGHUP Reload the configuration.

FILES

       /etc/smpppd.conf
	      Basic configuration.

       /etc/sysconfig/network/ifcfg-*
	      Configuration files for the interfaces.

       /etc/sysconfig/network/providers/*
	      Configuration files for the providers.

       /var/run/smpppd/control
	      Socket to communicate with local frontends.

       /var/run/smpppd/ifcfg-*
	      Sockets to communicate with backends.

SEE ALSO

       kinternet, qinternet, accounting(1), cinternet(1), wvdial(1), smpppd.conf(5), pppd(8), smpppd-ifcfg(8).

AUTHOR

       Arvin Schnell <arvin@suse.de>

SuSE								  September 2003							 SMPPPD(8)