Laurent CARON wrote:
> If your DSL link goes down, your ppp0 device disappears, and the scripts 
> in /etc/ppp/ip-down.d/ are executed so you can take the appropriate 
> measures.

I have placed "/sbin/shorewall restart" in a file in the ip-up.d 
directory.  It still seems to be unreliable, though.  I'd really like it 
if the device could stick around.

> Are you sure your modem can't take on it's wan side the 1st public ip 
> address, and then attributing on the lan side one of the public ip 
> addresses from the public range ?

Yes, I'm sure.  If I activate the modem's built-in PPPoE, it will 
terminate the PPP protocol within the modem.  The modem does have an 
option to enable transparent bridging, but unfortunately, it only 
forwards a single IP address (the address allocated by PPP), and drops 
traffic intended for all other IP addresses.

My ISP is AT&T DSL, and their so-called "static" IP addresses are really 
an abuse of the PPP and PPPoE specifications.  The PPP protocol is only 
completed for a single IP address, and the other addresses are just 
passed through the same link, so unless the administrator manually adds 
them (via alias devices in Linux, for example), they will be unusable. 
It's a shame that a PPP negotiation session can't be done for each IP 
address in parallel.

Josh

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