rp-pppoe/initscripts/broken PPPoE annoyance

Pekka Pietikainen pp at ee.oulu.fi
Thu Oct 7 22:42:11 UTC 2004


On Thu, Oct 07, 2004 at 10:53:58PM +0100, David Woodhouse wrote:
> I assume you're not using demand mode, and that it makes you wait while
> it brings up the interface? If you _want_ it to happen in the background
> though, and you don't actually need it up instantly (for stuff like
> ntpdate) then surely you should be?
> 
> I think I'm going to implement a 'permanent demand' mode for pppd which
> works like demand mode but it _always_ assumes there's a demand. I have
> to be careful though because I already sent Paulus the pppoatm stuff,
Ah excellent... Demand dialing has a modem/isdn connotation so I didn't
think I'd want to use it. I tried rp-pppoe-3.5-21 and ppp-2.4.2-6.3 + demand
(current rawhide ones didn't work) and it's just about the way I want it to
be now. Seems to give up permanently if the network isn't up on the first
try though, if it drops afterwards it does recover nicely.

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Pekka Pietikainen




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