pppstat(1M) — ADMINISTRATOR COMMANDS
NAME
pppstat − show PPP status
SYNOPSIS
/usr/sbin/pppstat
DESCRIPTION
The pppstat command shows PPP interface statistics.
pppstat sends a PPP status request to in.pppd through a socket and then waits for in.pppd to return PPP status. in.pppd transmits and receives messages at the port indicated in the "pppmsg" service specification; see services(4). pppstat waits for the response for four seconds before it times out.
pppstat provides statistics regarding packets transferred and packet errors. It gives the number of times the following errors have occurred in received packets: bad Frame Check Sequence (FCS), bad address field, bad control field, and bad protocol field. It further shows the number of packets received for which the previous content was good, but which had a bad id field or which were loopback packets. pppstat also contains the number of connections established, closed, inbound requested, and outbound requested. The number of PPP password authentication failures and PPP state table errors are also displayed.