On Wednesday 13 October 2004 08.30, Thomas Hood wrote: > On Tue, 2004-10-12 at 23:28, Robert Collins wrote: > > Does it hook into ppp to handle persistent ppp connections? (i.e. > > adsl). > > I am not sure what you mean. > > The new ifupdown uses pppd's updetach option. Run with this option, > pppd only exits after it has made a connection. Since ifup runs "up" > commands only after pppd exits, "up" commands only get run after the > connection has been made.
I think Robert thought about if the scripts are rerun if pppd loses connection and reconnects - typically with a different IP. cheers -- vbi -- Oops
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