Ifconfig

[David R. Litwin]

I have set my ifconfig (via pppoeconf) to start up a ppp and eth0 connection.

My ifconfig, when working properly, reads thus:

ifconfig
eth0      Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 00:50:DA:B8:AE:EA
          inet6 addr: fe80::250:daff:feb8:aeea/64 Scope:Link
          UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
          RX packets:14311 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
          TX packets:12377 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
          collisions:1 txqueuelen:1000
          RX bytes:8317950 (7.9 MiB)  TX bytes:1993074 (1.9 MiB)
          Interrupt:9 Base address:0xb800

lo        Link encap:Local Loopback
          inet addr:127.0.0.1  Mask:255.0.0.0
          inet6 addr: ::1/128 Scope:Host
          UP LOOPBACK RUNNING  MTU:16436  Metric:1
          RX packets:7 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
          TX packets:7 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
          collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
          RX bytes:390 (390.0 b)  TX bytes:390 (390.0 b)

ppp0      Link encap:Point-to-Point Protocol
          inet addr:65.94.84.97  P-t-P:64.230.197.65  Mask:255.255.255.255
          UP POINTOPOINT RUNNING NOARP MULTICAST  MTU:1492  Metric:1
          RX packets:11365 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
          TX packets:11273 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
          collisions:0 txqueuelen:3
          RX bytes:7840851 (7.4 MiB)  TX bytes:1677456 (1.5 MiB)

The problem is two-fold:

One: When I boot up in to Linux, it automatically connects me - twice. I have to give "ifconfig ppp1 down" so that I've only one ppp connection. How do I stop ppp1 from existing and have only ppp0?

Two: I need to have lo up when I boot up so that my printer works. It used to do this: But no more. I must do "ifconfig lo 127.0.0.1 up" for lo to go up. How do I get it to do this on its own?

I think it has to do with the Networking files, yes?

Thank you in advance.

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