2005/5/23, Marty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> Yuwen Dai wrote:
> > Deal all,
> >
> > I used /etc/ppp/ppp_on_boot to have pppoe bring up on boot time.
> > Although ppp_on_boot is an obsolete method, it worked well untill I
> > made an "apt-get dist-upgrade" yesterday.
> >
> > My Linux box has two ethernet cards, eth1 for internal networking and
> > eth0 for pppoe. I found eth0 is not up when the the system boots, eth1
> > is OK.
> >
> > I read the /usr/share/doc/ppp/readme.Debian.gz. Added these lines to
> > /etc/network/interfaces:
> > auto eth0
> > iface eth0 inet ppp
> > provider dsl-provider
> >
> > But eth0 wasn't up after /etc/init.d/network had run. I have to manually
> > run
> >
> > ifconfig eth0 up
> >
> > before I run
> >
> > pon dsl-provider
> >
> > What's the correct way to bring up pppoe on boot time? Thanks in advance.
> >
> > Best regards,
> > Dai Yuwen
> >
> >
>
> Just a guess, but if you use the "demand" keyword in the dsl-provider
> file, to enable demand-dialing, then one of two things might happen,
> first, you are not trying to send a packet to the connection is not
> initiated, or secondly you do try to send a packet but for some reason
> it doesn't get recognized as a WAN packet and consequently does not
> trigger the dialup. (I'm pretty sure I've experienced the second
> problem and while I don't recall the details, it involved a DNS catch-22
> type issue. I think the resolution was changing my default resolve.conf
> settings.)
>
Hi, Marty
Thank you. I resolved the problem by adding lines in
/etc/network/interfaces:
auto ppp0
iface ppp0 inet ppp
provider dsl-provider
pre-up /sbin/ifconfig eth0 up
Now eth0 is brought up automatically before dialing.
Best regards,
Dai Yuwen
