Module Name: src
Committed By: rjs
Date: Wed Feb 29 22:53:47 UTC 2012
Modified Files:
src/share/man/man4: pppoe.4
Log Message:
Add some info on RFC4638.
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Index: src/share/man/man4/pppoe.4
diff -u src/share/man/man4/pppoe.4:1.34 src/share/man/man4/pppoe.4:1.35
--- src/share/man/man4/pppoe.4:1.34 Wed May 27 19:24:00 2009
+++ src/share/man/man4/pppoe.4 Wed Feb 29 22:53:47 2012
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-.\" $NetBSD: pppoe.4,v 1.34 2009/05/27 19:24:00 snj Exp $
+.\" $NetBSD: pppoe.4,v 1.35 2012/02/29 22:53:47 rjs Exp $
.\"
.\" Copyright (c) 2002 The NetBSD Foundation, Inc.
.\" All rights reserved.
@@ -27,7 +27,7 @@
.\" ARISING IN ANY WAY OUT OF THE USE OF THIS SOFTWARE, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE
.\" POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGE.
.\"
-.Dd July 4, 2006
+.Dd February 24, 2012
.Dt PPPOE 4
.Os
.Sh NAME
@@ -301,13 +301,19 @@ flag with
.%T "A Method for Transmitting PPP Over Ethernet (PPPoE)"
.%D February 1999
.Re
+.Rs
+.%R RFC
+.%N 4638
+.%T "Accommodating a Maximum Transit Unit/Maximum Recieve Unit (MTU/MRU) Greater Than 1492 in the Point-to-Point Protocol over Ethernet (PPPoE)"
+.%D September 2006
+.Re
.Sh HISTORY
The
.Nm
device appeared in
.Nx 1.6 .
.Sh DEVIATIONS FROM STANDARD
-The PPPoE standard,
+The original PPPoE standard,
.Li RFC2516 ,
requires a maximal MTU of 1492 octets.
This value is the maximum conservative
@@ -319,7 +325,10 @@ many PPPoE services allow the use of (sl
the problems described above.
.Pp
This implementation allows MTU values as large as possible with the actual
-MTU of the used Ethernet interface.
+MTU of the used Ethernet interface and conforms to the enhancement to the
+PPPoE standard,
+.Li RFC4638 ,
+to request the use of this larger MTU value with the PPPoE server.
.Sh BUGS
When using the wildcard address 0.0.0.0 (as described above)
it is important to specify the proper
