On 6/18/06, Philip Dillon-Thiselton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On 17/06/06, James <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> >
> On 6/17/06, Philip Dillon-Thiselton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > Well, the wiki has information on how to set ppp up - surely reading that
> > is a start ;) Obviously you can't test it though. I was going to take a
> > look at this as well, though I don't have pp atm.
>
> Looking at the wiki... correct me if I'm wrong, but all that seems
> that needs to be done is to have the 'ppp' daemon start, when the
> profile starts...
>
> so an extra option could be added, and when enabled, it causes pppd to
> be started and stopped with the profile.
>
> eg: PPPD="yes"
>
> Or.... looking around, is there some sort profile system that pppd
> uses? Would it be better to add an option PPP_PROFILE="" and the user
> puts their correct pppd profile in?
>
> Is there a difference in the method of starting PPP for PPPoE and PPP?
>
> I'll take another look in the morning when i've had some sleep, im
> hardly making any sense to myself right now. If there's anyone using
> PPP/PPPoE, please give me some feedback, let me know how you start it,
> if it has multiple configs, and if i'm on the right path.
>
> If so, I can hack up a patch in a few minutes really easily for either
> of those options tommorow that should work right out of the box. If it
> works, there probably wont be any problem with including it in the
> next initscripts release or two
>
> James
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> Well, afaik, all the configuration and set up can only be done in /etc/ppp,
> which is a shame because the profile couldn't be entirely self contained.
> However, once these files are setup you just need to call pppd (by which
> ever method) with the name of the peers file you wish to use. The files in
> /etc/ppp/peers are the equivalent of profiles but some of their details,
> like passwords, are stored in a separate file.
>
> What cases netcfg to use IWOPTS? I think it is simply
> if [ "$IWOPTS" ]; then
> Can't we simply add $PPPOPTS to the network profile and bring up $INTERFACE
> if that appears but then quit out of the script so we don't go through the
> ifconfig up stuff? I could have more of a look at my setup later (not home
> atm) if someone doesn't fill in some details before that.
>
from what I read.... would it be as simple as.. adding to netcfg after
the $IFOPTS section and before hostname,
if [ "$PPP_PEER" ]; then
/usr/sbin/pppd call $PPP_PEER
fi
this assumes ppp forks itself, which is what the scripts lying around
seems to suggest.
and then adding a config option to your profile...
PPP_PEER="peer"
where peer is the name of the peer file that is wanted, wanna give
that a shot dibble?
James
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