Re: ppp/ip-up vs. network/if-up

[Joerg Sommer <joerg@alea.gnuu.de>]

Thomas Hood <jdthood@yahoo.co.uk> wrote:
> On Oct 11, Joerg Sommer <joerg@alea.gnuu.de> wrote:
>> why ppp provides its own mechanism of telling programs when the
>> interface is coming up or down? Many programs register for the ppp
>> mechanism, but not for the network mechanism. Where is the difference
>
>
> The reason there continues to be a need for /etc/ppp/ip-(up|down).d/ is
> that ifupdown has never handled ppp interfaces properly.  ifup runs
> /etc/network/if-up.d/ scripts immediately after starting pppd; what it

But /etc/ppp/ip-(up|down) can call these script instead of
/e/p/ip-(up|down).d/

Joerg.
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