On 30/06/05, Craig Russell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Ok- > Never used pppoe with debian, but, in reading the man page and the files > in /usr/share/doc/pppoe it appears that the client side program can > either be run from the user-space or be loaded directly into the > kernel. If this started happening after you upgraded to sarge, my guess > is that you are attempting to load this twice. Look through the scripts > in /etc/init.d and find any references to ppp in them; see what is being > called. The other thing to look at is the ppp config files in /etc/ppp > to see what is being configured their. If you have configuration > parameters in /etc/network/interfaces AND /etc/ppp that could also be > causing your problem. > > Somethings to look at. > > Good Luck > > Craig Russell > AirDigitalNetwork.com
Well, after peering through many files and scripts and a whole lot of things, I have FINALY! discovered the problem and rectified it. The Situation (for the record): Using pppoeconf to configure my DSL pppoe connection and asking it to connect at boot-up, it was creating two connections: PPP0 (the right one) and PPP1 (an extra, un-wanted, heretical and hethenous one). In lieu of giving # ifconfig ppp1 down every time and having to wait the extra seconds at boot-up, I managed to find some thing: ppp-on-boot.dsl and the link file ppp-on-boot. After deleting these two files, and configuring the /etc/network/interfaces (which had actually already been done... odd....) my internet is alive, well and single. Thanks to the Debian Community for another solved problem.
