On Apr 06, Thomas Hood [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I have merged #302709 with #253936. Quotations from the latter:
I was just reading it.
Unless you are some really compelling reason to not do so I will modify
net.agent to ignore ppp interfaces, because using ifupdown to
automatically start pppd
On Wed, 2005-04-06 at 15:47 +0200, Marco d'Itri wrote:
On Apr 06, Thomas Hood [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Unless you are some really compelling reason to not do so I will modify
net.agent to ignore ppp interfaces, because using ifupdown to
automatically start pppd at boot time is the recommended
On Apr 06, Thomas Hood [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
If pppd's persist option is not used then the current state of affairs
If persist is not used then starting pppd at boot time is not much
useful, and this is the only sensible reason for starting it with
ifupdown.
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ciao,
Marco
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On Wed, 2005-04-06 at 17:05 +0200, Marco d'Itri wrote:
If persist is not used then starting pppd at boot time is not much
useful, and this is the only sensible reason for starting it with
ifupdown.
I think you are right: the majority of people who control PPP interfaces
with ifup/ifdown
On Wed, 2005-04-06 at 16:57 +0200, Joerg Dorchain wrote:
Maybe ifup and ifdown can use the environment variables to see
whether they are run from hotplug scripts or not and accordingly leave
pppd alone if they are.
It is easier to modify hotplug's net.agent script so that it avoids
calling
On Wed, Apr 06, 2005 at 05:54:54PM +0200, Thomas Hood wrote:
On Wed, 2005-04-06 at 16:57 +0200, Joerg Dorchain wrote:
Maybe ifup and ifdown can use the environment variables to see
whether they are run from hotplug scripts or not and accordingly leave
pppd alone if they are.
It is
On Wed, Apr 06, 2005 at 05:48:22PM +0200, Thomas Hood wrote:
On Wed, 2005-04-06 at 17:05 +0200, Marco d'Itri wrote:
If persist is not used then starting pppd at boot time is not much
useful, and this is the only sensible reason for starting it with
ifupdown.
I think you are right: the
On Apr 06, Joerg Dorchain [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I had the impression that pon/poff were going to be deprecated in favour
of using ifup/ifdown as with all other interfaces.
Not really.
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ciao,
Marco
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On Wed, 2005-04-06 at 19:13 +0200, Joerg Dorchain wrote:
I had the impression that pon/poff were going to be deprecated in favour
of using ifup/ifdown as with all other interfaces.
It would have made sense to replace pon/poff with ifup/ifdown five years
ago. But before the transition could be
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