I would say, yes. This is a very important for some dialup users. I personally
ditched the default way on my system because I couldn't do this.
With regard to the concerns leveled at users defining their own scripts, it
shouldn't cause too much trouble as long as the user knows a bit about what
he is doing.
I do have one question though, how will this affect programs like pppconfig?
Programs such as these may not look at these scripts and break. Pretty much
my one worry is about breaking compatibility with other programs in the tree.
--Thomas
P.S. Since this is a dialup type question, how many devs have done dev work
over 56K dialup net connections?
On Sunday 26 August 2007 02:05:08 Alin Năstac wrote:
> A gentoo user requested in bug 190143 [1] to change the way pppd deals
> with interface up/down events. He requested to break current
> ip-up/ip-down functionality into different scripts contained in
> /etc/ppp/(ip-up.d,ip-down.d}.
>
> What do you think about? Is it worth it?
>
> Personally I think it is a good idea, but I have reserves when it comes
> to user defined {ip-up,ip-down}.local scripts. IMO the best way to solve
> this is to add this code to pkg_postinst():
> if [ -f "${ROOT}"etc/ppp/ip-up.local ]; then
> mv "${ROOT}"etc/ppp/ip-up.local "${ROOT}"etc/ppp/ip-up.d/99-local
> fi
>
> [1] http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=190143
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