PADM Messages Overview

You can configure PPPoE to issue and display a PPPoE Active Discovery Message (PADM). The PADM message is a control message that servers send to clients. The clients may act on the control message, but are not required to do so. There are two types of PADM messages:

Message of the minute (MOTM)—Informs clients of interesting system information
URL—Typically spawns an Internet browser with the specified URL as the initial page

You can configure the router to send PADM messages as follows:

Send MOTM messages to all clients connected to the router.
Send MOTM and URL messages to all clients connected to a subinterface.

Configure profiles to send MOTM and URL messages to new clients created when the profile is dynamically attached to an IP interface.

Note: You can use the pppoe motm command at three different points in the configuration process: Privileged Exec, Interface Configuration, and Profile Configuration modes. You can use the pppoe url command at two different points in the configuration process: Interface Configuration and Profile Configuration modes. Note the differences described in guidelines below.

PADM Messages Overview

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