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authorbrooks <brooks@FreeBSD.org>2002-08-09 15:30:48 +0000
committerbrooks <brooks@FreeBSD.org>2002-08-09 15:30:48 +0000
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Make ppp(4) devices clonable and unloadable.
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@@ -41,7 +41,7 @@
.Nm ppp
.Nd point to point protocol network interface
.Sh SYNOPSIS
-.Cd "device ppp" Op Ar count
+.Cd "device ppp"
.Sh DESCRIPTION
The
.Nm
@@ -53,6 +53,17 @@ interface can use various types of compression and has many features over
the
.Xr sl 4
protocol.
+.Pp
+Each
+.Nm
+interface is created at runtime using interface cloning.
+This is most easily done with the
+.Xr ifconfig 8
+.Cm create
+command or using the
+.Va cloned_interfaces
+variable in
+.Xr rc.conf 5 .
.Sh DIAGNOSTICS
.Bl -diag
.It ppp%d: af%d not supported.
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