OK - it's _way_ more complicated than that. We don't want to run ifconfig on this interface at all do we, or we'll get errors coming out our ears. So that means that we need to check that the device is not a ppp device before we do any ifconfig stuff when bringing the IF up BUT, most importantly, we need to know what type of connection each IF has in /var/run/net to bring them down. There are several ways that could be done but the simplest, and maybe the best, is to have another statedir call /var/run/ppp and pop the details of ppp IF in there if [ "$PPP_PEER" ], when we bring it up.
At the end of the day though all we are doing is making a hackish link to /etc/ppp/peers - it's hardly in keeping with the gorgeousness of netcfg itself..it's like walking on fresh snow...
In addition...
I can see from looking at poff that the only good way of killing a specific pppd is by pid. I can only assume we want support for multiple pppd so we need to append the pid "arch-daemon-style" to the end of the file in /var/state/ppp.
If that all sounds sane then speak up and I'll have a tinker.
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