Fortinet fortigate-200a Betriebsanweisung

If you configure the interface to use PPPoE, the FortiGate unit automatically 
broadcasts a PPPoE request. You can disable connect to server if you are configuring 
the FortiGate unit offline and you do not want the FortiGate unit to send the PPPoE 
request.

FortiGate units support many of the PPPoE RFC features (RFC 2516) including 
unnumbered IPs, initial discovery timeout that times and PPPoE Active Discovery 
Terminate (PADT).

connecting The interface is attempting to connect to the DHCP server.
connected The interface retrieves an IP address, netmask, and other settings 

from the DHCP server.

The interface was unable to retrieve an IP address and other 

information from the DHCP server.

The PPPoE account user name.

The PPPoE account password.

Specify the IP address for the interface. If your ISP has assigned you a 

block of IP addresses, use one of them. Otherwise, this IP address can be 

the same as the IP address of another interface or can be any IP address. 

Initial discovery timeout. The time to wait before retrying to start a PPPoE 

discovery. Set Initial Disc to 0 to disable.

Initial PPPoE Active Discovery Terminate (PADT) timeout in seconds. Use 

this timeout to shut down the PPPoE session if it is idle for this number of 

seconds. PADT must be supported by your ISP. Set initial PADT timeout to 

0 to disable.

Enter the administrative distance for the default gateway retrieved from the 

PPPoE server. The administrative distance, an integer from 1-255, 

specifies the relative priority of a route when there are multiple routes to the 

same destination. A lower administrative distance indicates a more 

preferred route. The default distance for the default gateway is 1.

Enable Retrieve default gateway from server to retrieve a default gateway 

IP address from a PPPoE server. The default gateway is added to the static 

routing table.

Enable Override internal DNS to replace the DNS server IP addresses on 

the DNS page with the DNS addresses retrieved from the PPPoE server.