PPP-GATEKEEPER(8)

PPP-GATEKEEPER(8) 💅

okay bestie, welcome to section 8 of the system manager's manual — this is ppp-gatekeeper, and she is that girl when it comes to keeping your PPPOE connections alive. 🎀

✨ NAME ✨

ppp-gatekeeper — PPP Gatekeeper is a daemon that manages PPPOE connections. yes, that's literally the whole vibe. a daemon. managing PPPOE. iconic. 👑

🦋 SYNOPSIS 🦋

ppp-gatekeeper [--config config file]  [--fg]  [--help]

that's it. that's the whole invocation. short, sweet, slays. 💖

🌸 DESCRIPTION 🌸

so, PPP Gatekeeper is a daemon — like, a background little guy, main character energy, always on — and what she does is manage PPPOE connections. ✨

and bestie, she doesn't just do the basics. she supports various levels of redundancy and failover, which is a fancy way of saying: if one connection is giving nothing, she's got backups. no cap. that's resilience, that's range. 💅

🎀 OPTIONS 🎀

okay so before we get into the list, housekeeping: these programs follow the usual GNU command line syntax, with long options starting with two dashes (`-). a summary of options is included below, and here it is in all her glory. 🌈

• --config — specify config file to use. like, tell her which config file, bestie. she's not a mind reader. 🍓
• --fg — run in foreground, don't daemonize. she stays right there in your terminal, holding your hand, not sneaking off into the background. 🫶
• --help — show summary of options. the classic. the moment of "wait what were the flags again". she's got you. ⭐

💜 SEE ALSO 💜

• pppd (8) — the other one. the friend. go say hi. 💖

🌈 AUTHOR 🌈

this manual page was written by Nigel Kukard <nkukard@lbsd.net>. 💌

permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this document under the terms of the GNU General Public License, Version 2 any later version published by the Free Software Foundation. so yes, you can share her, remix her, whatever — just keep the license energy intact. periodt.

on Debian systems, the complete text of the GNU General Public License can be found in /usr/share/common-licenses/GPL. go read it if you're curious, it's giving ✨legal literacy✨.

ngl, this whole page is licensed under the GNU GPL v2-or-later, so respect the terms and we're all good. 🙈

and that's the whole page, bestie — and at the very bottom of it all she signs off with just her own name again, PPP-GATEKEEPER(8), because there's no version and no date printed down there to give you. so: that's PPP-GATEKEEPER(8), from the System Manager's Manual, and she said what she said. bye babe! 💅💖🎀