On Aug 30, Eduard Bloch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Most modems used with PPPoE do not have management interfaces. There is > often not much use for an IP adress. This is not my experience.
> > use the "manual" directive.
> The manual directive does not bring the interface up. And there should
> be no reason to polute the config with it anyways.
iface eth0 inet manual
pre-up ip link set up $IFACE
I do not believe this is "pollution". You have a network interface, so
you need to configure it.
> Any other options? Programs should be error tolerant. ppp isn't since
> you have deliberately removed the interface-up patch. And your arguments
It was an ugly hack rejected by the upstream maintainer. There is not
much else to add.
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ciao,
Marco
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