Grant Parnell said: > I've often been frustrated when dealing with multiple ppp interfaces > knowing which is which and have decided to investigate. The following > applies to RedHat systems but probably can be adapted to others easily > enough. > > The DEVNAME in the /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-ppp0 file is the > key. > > ...snip... > > Of course if somebody could explain to me why you can't specify the actual > interface name such that you can arbitrarily bring up a single interface > 'ppp9' for example with /sbin/ifup ppp9 I'd love to know.
A solution I found the other day for a similar problem (trying to get ifup to work for different ISP accounts but all using the same modem), was to copy ifcfg-ppp0 to ifcfg-ppp1 and change the reference in the file from ppp0 to ppp1. In my case I also changed the section name for WVDIAL so it would use a different phone number/name/password combination. After doing this, I could then do /sbin/ifup ppp0 or /sbin/ifup ppp1. /sbin/ifdown ppp1 works too. The only thing that confused me a little was when ppp1 was up, ifconfig still should ppp0. Regards, David -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
