On Wed, Jan 18, 2012 at 10:27:26PM +0000, Lee Essen wrote:
> On 18 Jan 2012, at 22:04, Luka Perkov <open...@lukaperkov.net> wrote:
> > On Wed, Jan 18, 2012 at 01:22:10PM +0000, lee.es...@nowonline.co.uk wrote:
> I'm not sure I understand what you mean?  If this script didn't look for 
> pppoa interfaces then it would try to bring up any 'down' interfaces when the 
> DSL line came up, and more worryingly it would take every interface down when 
> the link went down.
> 
> My understanding is that you either use a br2684 bridge (for pppoe based DSL 
> providers) or pppoa for native pppoa DSL providers (although I've no 
> experience of the bridge option so I am making some assumptions.)
> 
> In the bridge case the ppp link comes up as part of the hotplug mechanism, 
> but for pppoa you need to trigger it as per the patch. So I'm not sure why 
> you would look at non pppoa interfaces? In fact the code is mostly copied 
> from the hotplug atm script to ensure the behaviour is as similar as possible.

I was wrong. I'll try and test your patch tomorrow or this weekend...

Luka
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