On Sat, 06 Jun 2020 19:14:28 +0200, Jan Stary wrote: > Is the aim to let the ISP know that the iface is down, > so that it gets set up afresh on boot, as opposed to > waiting for some PPP keep-alive timeout?
Basically. It is to work around an issue where the pppoe ethernet interface goes down during reboot before the pppoe disconnect message can be sent to the ISP. I'm not sure it is needed anymore, though I still have it in my own rc.shutdown file. - todd
