Monitoring PPP Interfaces
Use the following versions of the show ppp interface command to monitor PPP interfaces:
- show ppp interface
- show ppp interface summary
You can set a statistics baseline for PPP interfaces using the baseline ppp commands. Use the optional delta keyword with PPP show commands to show baselined statistics.
You can use the output filtering feature of the show command to include or exclude lines of output based on a text string that you specify. Refer to the show Commands in JunosE System Basics Configuration Guide, for details.
![]() | Note: The E120 and E320 routers output for monitor and show commands is identical to output from other E Series routers, except that the E120 and E320 routers output also includes information about the adapter identifier in the interface specifier (slot/adapter/port). |
baseline ppp interface
- Use to establish a baseline for PPP statistics on an interface.
- The router implements the baseline by reading and storing the statistics at the time the baseline is set, then subtracting this baseline whenever baseline-related statistics are retrieved.
- Use the optional delta keyword with PPP show commands to show baselined statistics.
- Exampleshost1#baseline ppp interface atm 3/3.20 host1#baseline ppp interface atm 3/0/3.20
- There is no no version.
- See baseline ppp interface.
show ppp interface
- Use to display selective PPP interface information.
- You can filter the command display for characteristics of particular interest, such as interface type, data type, configured protocol, or interface state.
- Field descriptions
- inactivity-timeout—Inactivity timeout, in seconds; session is terminated if it is not active for specified timeout
- monitor-ingress-only—Indicates whether the router monitors only ingress traffic for the configured idle (inactivity) timeout period; true (router monitors only ingress traffic) or false (router monitors both ingress traffic and egress traffic)
- PPP interface—Interface type, interface specifier, and status (up, down, lowerDown, not present, passive, or tunnel). For more information about specifying the physical interface on which you want to configure PPP, see Interface Types and Specifiers in JunosE Command Reference Guide.
- accounting-timeout—Accounting timeout in seconds; frequency of accounting updates to the authentication server
- Interface alias—Alias or description of the PPP interface
- Interface administrative status—Indicates whether the interface is administratively enabled (open), meaning that the no ppp shutdown command is operational; or administratively disabled (closed), which means that the ppp shutdown command is operational
- Configured network protocol—Indicates the network protocol configured on the interface
- Baseline status—Indicates whether a statistics baseline is set
- Interface statistics
- packets—Number of packets received (in) or transmitted (out) on the interface
- octets—Number of octets received (in) or transmitted (out) on the interface
- errors—Number of errors received (in) or transmitted (out) on the interface
- discards—Number of packets discarded on receipt (in) or discarded before they were transmitted (out); for more information about the discards counter, see Rate Limiting for PPP Control Packets
- policed—Number of packets received (in) and marked as per the rates configured for the interface; for more information, see Rate Limiting for PPP Control Packets
- IPCP protocol configuration
- configured—IPCP is configured on this interface (true or false)
- administrative-status—IPCP administrative status (open or closed)
- ip-address—Address to be used for negotiation of the local IP address option
- dns-precedence—Used to resolve conflicts during negotiation of DNS addresses; “local” indicates that the local side takes precedence and the no ppp peer dns command is operative; “peer” indicates that the remote side takes precedence and the ppp peer dns command is operative
- wins-precedence—Used to resolve conflicts during negotiation of WINS addresses; “local” indicates that the local side takes precedence and the no ppp peer wins command is operative; “peer” indicates that the remote side takes precedence and the ppp peer wins command is operative
- ipcp-netmask-option—Controls negotiation of the IPCP netmask option; disabled = do not negotiate, enabled = negotiate
- ipcp-lockout-option—Terminates an invalid subscriber entry and prevents additional IPCP negotiations (enabled or disabled)
- max-negotiations—Maximum number of renegotiation attempts that the router accepts before terminating a PPP session
- ipcp prompt-option dns—Prompts the CPE (Customer Premises Equipment) to negotiate the IPCP primary and secondary DNS options that are locally available with the broadband remote access server (enabled or disabled)
- IPV6CP protocol configuration
- configured—IPv6CP is configured on this interface (true or false)
- administrative-status—IPv6CP administrative status (open or closed)
- ipv6-interfaceId—Address to be used for negotiation of local IPv6 address option
- IPCP protocol status
- operational-status—IPCP operational status (up, down, not present, or not present no resources)
- terminate-reason—Reason for termination of IPCP service
- IPV6CP protocol status
- operational-status—IPv6CP operational status (up, down, not present, or not present no resources)
- terminate-reason—Reason for termination of IPv6CP service
- IPCP negotiated options—Shows
the following negotiated addresses for the local and remote (peer)
side of the link
- ip-address—IP address
- ip-address-mask—IP address mask
- primary-dns-address—Primary DNS address
- secondary-dns-address—Secondary DNS address
- primary-wins-address—Primary WINS address
- secondary-wins-address—Secondary WINS address

Note: The command displays a value of “none” for any negotiated option parameters if the option was not negotiated.
- OSINLCP protocol configuration
- configured—OSINLCP is configured on this interface (true or false)
- administrative-status—OSINLCP administrative status (open or closed)
- OSINLCP protocol status
- operational-status—OSINLCP operational status (up, down, not present, or not present no resources)
- terminate-reason—Reason for termination of OSINLCP service
- OSINLCP negotiated options
- npdu-alignment—Negotiated NPDU alignment for the
local and remote (peer) side of the link

Note: The command displays a value of “none” for any negotiated option parameters if the option was not negotiated.
- npdu-alignment—Negotiated NPDU alignment for the
local and remote (peer) side of the link
- MPLSNLCP protocol configuration
- configured—MPLSNLCP is configured on this interface (true or false)
- administrative-status—MPLSNLCP administrative status (open or closed)
- MPLSNLCP protocol status
- operational-status—MPLSNLCP operational status (up, down, not present, or not present no resources)
- terminate-reason—Reason for termination of MPLSNLCP service
- MPLSNLCP negotiated options
- npdu-alignment—Negotiated NPDU alignment for the
local and remote (peer) side of the link

Note: The command displays a value of “none” for any negotiated option parameters if the option was not negotiated.
- npdu-alignment—Negotiated NPDU alignment for the
local and remote (peer) side of the link
- LCP protocol configuration
- max-receive-unit—Controls negotiation of the local MRU option; “use lower layer” indicates that the MRU of the layer below PPP defines the MRU to be negotiated; “disabled” indicates that the MRU option is not to be negotiated. A numeric value indicates the MRU value to be negotiated
- authentication—Controls the negotiation of the local authentication option; “none” indicates do not negotiate; “chap” indicates negotiate chap; “pap” indicates negotiate pap; “chap/pap” indicates negotiate chap and, if it is rejected, negotiate pap; “pap/chap” indicates negotiate pap and, if it is rejected, negotiate chap.
- magic-number—Controls whether the local magic number is negotiated: enabled (negotiate), or disabled (do not negotiate)
- magic-number-mismatch—Indicates whether the router is configured to ignore the LCP peer magic number and retain the PPP connection when the peer has not negotiated an LCP magic number: ignore (ignore the peer magic number mismatch and retain the PPP connection), or reject (router terminates the PPP connection if it detects a peer magic number mismatch)
- keepalive-timer—Rate of LCP echo requests
- restart-timer—Retry frequency during LCP, IPCP, OSINLCP, and MPLS negotiations
- max-terminate—Maximum number of terminate requests
- max-configure—Maximum number of configure requests
- max-failure—Maximum number of configure NAKs
- passive-mode—Forces a PPP interface into a passive mode before LCP negotiation begins; “disabled” means do not wait for peer; “enabled” means wait for peer to initiate negotiation
- LCP protocol status
- link-status—Overall status of LCP negotiations, including the following states: Initial (idle), Starting (ready to negotiate), Authenticate (authenticating), and Network (LCP is up)
- LCP negotiated options—Shows the following negotiated
values for the local and remote (peer) side of the link:
- max-receive unit—Maximum receive unit, in octets
- authentication—Authentication method (none, pap, or chap)
- magic-number—Magic number
- pfc—PFC (none or enabled)
- acfc—ACFC (none or enabled)

Note: The command displays a value of “none” for any negotiated option parameters if the option was not negotiated.
- LCP Endpoint Discriminator options
- local discriminator class—Endpoint discriminator type, format, and address space for the local and remote (peer) router
- local endpoint discriminator—Endpoint discriminator value for the local router within the specified class
- peer discriminator class—Endpoint discriminator type, format, and address space for the remote router
- peer endpoint discriminator—Endpoint discriminator value for the remote router within the specified class
- LCP protocol statistics—Shows the following statistics
for the life of the interface (since system boot or interface creation,
whichever is later)
- in-keepalive-requests—Number of received keepalive requests (LCP Echo Requests)
- out-keepalive-requests—Number of transmitted keepalive requests
- in-keepalive-replies—Number of received keepalive replies
- out-keepalive-replies—Number of transmitted keepalive replies
- keepalive-failures—Number of keepalive failures reported on the interface
- max-renegotiation-terminates—Number of renegotiation terminations for the PPP session
- IP protocol statistics
- max-renegotiation-terminates—Number of times the link has been terminated since it was created, due to the peer exceeding the maximum renegotiation attempts.
- IPv6 protocol statistics
- max-renegotiation-terminates—Number of times the link has been terminated since it was created, due to the peer exceeding the maximum renegotiation attempts.
- Authentication configuration
- authenticate-retry—Maximum number of authentication retries configured using the ppp max-bad-auth command
- authentication-router—Virtual router for the authentication virtual router context
- Authentication status
- grant—Authentication status (true = access granted, false = access not granted)
- session-timeout—Session timeout, in seconds; session is terminated at expiration
- inactivity-timeout—Inactivity timeout, in seconds; session is terminated if it is not active for specified timeout
- accounting-timeout—Accounting timeout in seconds; frequency of accounting updates to the authentication server
- peer-ip-address—IP address to be used in negotiation of peer IP address
- peer-ip-address-mask—IP address mask to be used in negotiation of the peer IP address mask
- peer-primary-dns-address—IP address to be used in negotiation of the peer primary DNS address
- peer-secondary-dns-address—IP address to be used in negotiation of the peer secondary DNS address
- peer-primary-wins-address—IP address to be used in negotiation of the peer primary WINS address
- peer-secondary-wins-address—IP address to be used
in negotiation of the peer secondary WINS address

Note: The command displays the authentication status as “none” for any parameters not provided by the authentication server.
- peer-ipv6–interface-id—IPv6 interface Identifier of the peer returned in an authentication grant from the RADIUS server
- Authentication statistics—Shows statistics accumulated
since the session was established
- up-time—Time the session has been up, in seconds
- in-octets—Number of octets received on the interface
- out-octets—Number of octets transmitted out the interface
- in-packets—Number of packets received on the interface
- out-packets—Number of packets transmitted out the interface
- PAP protocol configuration
- request-timeout—Maximum time, in seconds, to wait for an authentication request packet
- CHAP protocol configuration
- name—Name to be used in challenge packets
- challenge-retry—Maximum number of challenge packets to be transmitted
- challenge-timeout—Frequency, in seconds, of challenge packet retransmission
- minimum-challenge-length—Minimum length of challenge packet
- maximum-challenge-length—Maximum length of challenge packet; the size of the challenge used for each challenge packet is a random number between minimum-challenge-length and maximum-challenge-length
- minimum-rechallenge-timeout—Minimum time, in seconds, before initiating a rechallenge to peer
- maximum-rechallenge-timeout—Maximum time, in seconds, before initiating a rechallenge to peer; the actual time before a rechallenge is a random number between minimum-rechallenge-timeout and maximum-rechallenge-timeout
- EAP protocol configuration
- request-retry—Maximum number of authentication requests retried before returning a deny
- request-timeout—Maximum time, in seconds, to wait for an authentication request packet
- If the operational status is down for a specific interface,
one of the following termination reasons might appear in parentheses:
- administrative disable—Interface has been administratively disabled, which means that the ppp shutdown command is in effect. This applies to an interface, IPCP, IPv6CP, OSINLCP, and MPLS.
- administrative logout—Interface has been administratively logged out, which means that the logout subscriber command has been issued. This applies to an interface only.
- no upper interface—No upper layer is configured. This applies to an interface only.
- authentication failure—Authentication is required and has failed. This applies to an interface only.
- no local xxx—local option, xxx, is required and could not be negotiated (for example, IP address). This applies to an interface, IPCP, IPv6CP, OSINLCP, and MPLS.
- no peer xxx—Remote peer option, xxx, is required and could not be negotiated (for example, authentication). This applies to an interface, IPCP, IPv6CP, OSINLCP, and MPLS.
- keepalive drop count exceeded—Keepalive drop count has been exceeded. This applies to an interface only.
- session timeout—Session timeout period has expired. This applies to an interface only.
- inactivity timeout—Inactivity timeout period has expired. This applies to an interface only.
- address lease expired—Address lease period has expired. This applies to an interface only.
- not configured—Protocol is not configured on the interface. This applies to IPCP, IPv6CP, OSINLCP, and MPLS.
- link down—Link is down and the protocol is not operationally up. This applies to IPCP, IPv6CP, OSINLCP, and MPLS.
- lower layer down—Lower protocol layer is down. This applies to an interface only.
- max configure exceeded—Maximum number of configure requests was exceeded while negotiations were in progress. This means that there was no response from the peer, or the peer refused to negotiate. This applies to an interface, IPCP, IPv6CP, OSINLCP, and MPLS.
- peer requested termination—Remote peer requested termination of the connection, which means that a terminate request was received while the session was in an open state. This applies to an interface, IPCP, IPv6CP, OSINLCP, and MPLS.
- Example 1—Provides detailed output for a particular
IP interface
host1#show ppp interface gig 2/1/7.1.1 full PPP interface GigabitEthernet 2/1/7.1.1 is upp Interface administrative status is open Configured network protocol is IPCP IPCP protocol configuration configured true administrative-status open ip-address 6.6.6.6 dns-precedence local wins-precedence local ipcp-netmask-option disabled ipcp-lockout disabled max-negotiations 30 ipcp prompt-option dns enabled IPCP protocol status operational-status up IPCP negotiated options local peer ip-address 11.1.1.1 11.1.1.2 ip-address-mask none none primary-dns-address none none secondary-dns-address none none primary-wins-address none none secondary-wins-address none none IPV6CP Protocol Configuration configured false administrative-status open ipv6-interfaceId 0.0.0.0 max-negotiations 30 IPV6CP protocol status operational-status not present OSINLCP protocol configuration configured false administrative-status open OSINLCP protocol status operational-status not present Interface statistics in out packets 0 0 octets 14515 11296 errors 0 0 discards 0 0 policed 0 0 LCP protocol configuration max-receive-unit use lower layer authentication magic-number enabled magic-number-mismatch reject keepalive-timer 30 seconds restart-timer 3 seconds max-terminate 2 max-configure 10 max-failure 5 passive-mode disabled LCP protocol status link-status network LCP negotiated options local peer max-receive-unit 1492 1492 authentication none chap magic-number 0x3e51ca08 0x740bbf81 accm none none pfc none none acfc none none LCP protocol statistics in-keepalive-requests 11 out-keepalive-requests 11 in-keepalive-replies 11 out-keepalive-replies 11 keepalive-failures 0 max-renegotiation terminates 0 IP protocol statistics max-renegotiation-terminates 0 IPv6 protocol statistics max-renegotiation-terminates 0 Authentication configuration authenticate-retry 0 authentication-router '' aaa-profile '' Authentication status grant true session-timeout none inactivity-timeout none monitor—ingress-only false accounting-timeout none peer-ip-address none peer-ip-address-mask none peer-primary-dns-address none peer-secondary-dns-address none peer-primary-wins-address none peer-secondary-wins-address none peer-ipv6–interface-id none Authentication statistics up-time 0 seconds in-octets 0 out-octets 0 in-packets 0 out-packets 0 PAP protocol configuration request-timeout 20 seconds CHAP protocol configuration name '' challenge-retry 10 challenge-timeout 4 seconds minimum-challenge-length 16 maximum-challenge-length 32 minimum-rechallenge-timeout 0 seconds maximum-rechallenge-timeout 0 seconds EAP Protocol Configuration request-retry 5 request-timeout 3 seconds
- Example 2—Provides detailed output for a particular
IPv6 interface
host1#show ppp interface fastEthernet 12/0.1.1 full PPP interface FastEthernet 12/0.1.1 is lowerDown Interface administrative status is open Configured network protocol is IPV6CP IPCP protocol configuration configured false administrative-status open ip-address 0.0.0.0 dns-precedence local wins-precedence local ipcp-netmask-option disabled ipcp-lockout-option enabled max-negotiations 10 IPCP protocol status operational-status not present IPV6CP protocol configuration configured true administrative-status open ipv6-interfaceId 90:1a00:140:4b39 IPV6CP protocol status operational-status down terminate-reason link down OSINLCP protocol configuration configured false administrative-status open OSINLCP protocol status operational-status not present Interface statistics in out packets 0 0 octets 1163 706 errors 0 0 discards 153482 0 LCP protocol configuration max-receive-unit use lower layer authentication none magic-number enabled magic-number-mismatch reject keepalive-timer 30 seconds restart-timer 3 seconds max-terminate 2 max-configure 10 max-failure 5 passive-mode disabled LCP protocol status link-status initial LCP protocol statistics in-keepalive-requests 11 out-keepalive-requests 11 in-keepalive-replies 11 out-keepalive-replies 11 keepalive-failures 0 Authentication configuration authenticate-retry 0 authentication-router '' aaa-profile '' Authentication status grant false terminate-reason lower layer down PAP protocol configuration request-timeout 20 seconds CHAP protocol configuration name '' challenge-retry 10 challenge-timeout 4 seconds minimum-challenge-length 16 maximum-challenge-length 32 minimum-rechallenge-timeout 0 seconds maximum-rechallenge-timeout 0 seconds
- Example 3—Displays a termination reason (administrative
disable) when the operational status of the interface is down
host1#show ppp interface PPP interface pos 0/1:1 is lowerDown PPP interface pos 4/0:1 is lowerDown PPP interface pos 12/1:1 is lowerDown 3 ppp interfaces found PPP interface serial 0/0:1/1 is Up PPP interface serial 0/0:1/2 is Down (administrative disable)
- Example 4—Displays information about the PPP interface
statistics for IPCP
host1#show ppp interface fastEthernet 2/0.1 statistics ip PPP interface FastEthernet 2/0.1 is up LCP protocol statistics in-keepalive-requests 833 out-keepalive-requests 830 in-keepalive-replies 830 out-keepalive-replies 833 keepalive-failures 0 max-renegotiation-terminates 10
- See show ppp interface.
show ppp interface summary
- Use to display a summary of all the multilinked and nonmultilinked PPP interfaces configured on the router.
- Field descriptions
- PPP Status—Nonmultilinked PPP interfaces
- Configuration status—Indicates the configuration
state of the PPP interface, IPCP, IPv6CP ,
OSINLCP, or MPLS
- configured—Interface or protocol is configured
- notConfigured—Interface or protocol is not configured
- Administrative status—Indicates the administrative
state of the PPP interface, IPCP, IPv6CP ,
OSINLCP, or MPLS
- open—Interface or protocol is administratively enabled
- closed—Interface or protocol is administratively disabled
- Operational status (Interface)—Indicates the operational
state of the PPP interface
- up—Interface is operational
- down—Interface is not operational because of a problem in the PPP layer
- lowerDown—Interface is not operational because a lower layer in the protocol stack is down
- notPresent—Interface is not operational because the hardware is unavailable
- passive—Interface is waiting for the peer to send an LCP confReq message
- tunnel—Interface is being redirected through a tunnel
- Operational status (Ip, Ipv6, Osi. Mpls)—Indicates
the operational state of the IPCP, IPv6CP, OSINLCP, or MPLS protocol
- up—Protocol is operational
- down—Protocol is not operational because of a problem in the PPP layer
- notPresent—Protocol is not operational because it does not exist
- noResources—Protocol is not operational because it does not exist due to a lack of resources
- PPP Multilink Status—Multilinked PPP interfaces
- Example
host1#show ppp interface summary PPP Status Configuration status configured notConfigured Interface 4000 n/a Ip 4000 0 Ipv6 0 4000 Osi 0 4000 Mpls 0 4000 Administrative status open closed Interface 4000 0 Ip 4000 0 Ipv6 4000 0 Osi 4000 0 Mpls 4000 0 Operational status up down notPresent noResources Interface 4000 0 0 n/a Ip 4000 0 0 0 Ipv6 0 0 4000 0 Osi 0 0 4000 0 Mpls 0 0 4000 0 Operational status lowerDown passive tunnel Interface 0 0 0
PPP Multilink Status Configuration status configured notConfigured Link Interface 8000 n/a Network Interface 2000 n/a Ip 2000 0 Ipv6 0 2000 Osi 0 2000 Mpls 0 2000 Administrative status open closed Link Interface 8000 0 Network Interface 2000 0 Ip 2000 0 Ipv6 2000 0 Osi 2000 0 Mpls 2000 0 Operational status up down notPresent noResources Link Interface 8000 0 0 n/a Network Interface 2000 0 0 n/a Ip 2000 0 0 0 Ipv6 0 0 2000 0 Osi 0 0 2000 0 Mpls 0 0 2000 0 Operational status lowerDown passive tunnel Link Interface 0 0 0 Network Interface 0 0 0
- See show ppp interface summary.
show ppp peer-ip-address-optional
- Use to display whether an IP address is required in a client request for an IPCP negotiation
- Field descriptions
- Ppp peer-ip-address-optional—Indicates whether the peer IP address is optional in the IPCP configuration request.
- Example
host1#show ppp peer-ip-address-optional Ppp peer ip address optional: enabled
- See show ppp peer-ip-address-optional.
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