Thanks for the confirmation Ben. Glad to know I'm not
going insane. 

--- Ben Reser <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> 
> Okay I've figured this out and it has nothing to do
> with 2 interfaces...
> It has nothing to do with not getting addresses on
> the interfaces...
> Even if I go in with a rescue disk and set both of
> the interfaces to not
> boot at startup it still hangs on that startup
> script.
> 
> When you configure network settings you are given an
> option to configure
> a dialup account.  If you configure a dialup account
> then it will ask
> you if you want the "connection to startup at boot."
>  It should be
> asking "Do you want the dialup connection to start
> at boot."  Of course
> this option might apply to other types of
> connections (ISDN for example)
> I haven't tested that.  No matter what the message
> is deceiving.  Of
> course I have to wonder how many people want to
> dialup on bootup anyway.
> 
> Basically when you choose this option it makes a
> script called:
> /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/net_cnx_up
> 
> which all it does is run: ifup ppp0
> 
> (oddly enough the internet script passes a
> --boot_time param to it which
> it does nothing with).
> 
> On top of this the script shouldn't hang if it can't
> dialout.
> 
> It looks like eventually it starts ppp-watch which
> apparently is
> supposed to timeout if it gets a "boot" parameter. 
> Which it isn't
> getting.  But even if I run it by hand and pass it
> that parameter (or
> modify the scripts) it still doesn't seem to be
> working right.
> 
> I'd guess this is an issue with x86 as well, so I'm
> copying this to
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> 
> -- 
> Ben Reser <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

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