Re: interaction problem with pppd persist option
On Fri, 2004-06-11 at 03:54, Chris Ruffin wrote:
> Any ideas on how to solve this?
Edit /etc/hotplug/net.agent thus:
--- net.agent_ORIG 2004-06-11 10:06:20.000000000 +0200
+++ net.agent 2004-06-11 10:07:48.000000000 +0200
@@ -121,7 +121,10 @@
;;
remove|unregister)
- # Assume that we want to run ifdown no matter what,
+ case $INTERFACE in
+ ppp*) exit 0 ;;
+ esac
+ # Assume that we want to run ifdown
# because it is not going to remove the data from the
# ifstate database otherwise.
if [ -x /sbin/ifdown ]; then
On Fri, 2004-06-11 at 09:07, Andreas Metzler wrote:
> Ask Thomas Hood for his experimental ifup packages. ;-)
Actually my ifupdown package won't solve this particular problem.
My ifupdown runs pppd with the "persist" option; however, you still
have to edit net.agent if you want to prevent it from ifdown'ing
the interface on loss of connection.
--
Thomas Hood <jdthood@yahoo.co.uk>
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