Hi Rob, I do this the following way:
in '/etc/inittab': #-- pppd begin D0:2345:respawn:/usr/sbin/pppd nodetach call dsl-provider #-- pppd end in /etc/network/interfaces: # interface to DSL auto eth0 iface eth0 inet static address 1.1.1.1 netmask 255.255.255.255 broadcast 1.1.1.255 and no ppp interface here. This work's well on several devices here. For timesync you can create a script in /etc/ppp/ip-up.d/ which are executed every time a ppp connection is established. regards, Hermann -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Robert Rawlins - Think Blue Sent: Monday, September 07, 2009 10:08 PM To: [email protected] Subject: [Voyage-linux] bring up ppp automaticaly during boot Hello Guys, There seem to be a lot of network related questions on the list recently, thought I'd add another one ;-) I've got a ppp script configured on the system which connects just fine with 'pon' and likewise disconnects with 'poff'. I'm now looking to have the system treat it like the Ethernet, bringing ppp0 up when the system boots and then maintain that connection if it is dropped. What would you suggest is the best way to go about this? I've added the ppp0 as an interface to /etc/network/interfaces like so: auto ppp0 iface ppp0 inet ppp provider three with 'three' being the name of the ppp dialer that I'm looking to use. However when I run 'ifconfig ppp0 up' I simply get an error message which says: 'ppp0: ERROR while getting interface flags: No such device' and if I restart networking I get an error like so: voyage:~# /etc/init.d/networking restart Reconfiguring network interfaces...if-up.d/mountnfs[eth0]: waiting for interface ppp0 before doing NFS mounts (warning). /lib/udev/hotplug.functions: line 10: [: : integer expression expected /lib/udev/hotplug.functions: line 10: [: : integer expression expected done. I'd appreciate your thoughts guys, let me know how you would go about doing this, like I say, I want to bring the connection up as early as possible in the boot and then ensure it is maintained and reconnected if dropped. Also, getting the system to do a timesync once connection is made would also be good so the system has the latest time, in the same was it does when connecting over Ethernet. Cheers, Rob _______________________________________________ Voyage-linux mailing list [email protected] http://list.voyage.hk/mailman/listinfo/voyage-linux
