Re: Ping o' Death is killing pppd on my router.....
On Thu, 17 Apr 1997, Jason Costomiris wrote:
> > why not just use the arguments passed to /etc/ppp/ip-{up,down} by pppd?
>
> Sure, I could do that, but suppose pppd changes the order in which it
> passes parameters with the next pppd upgrade... I'll still be running,
> if I used $4, and didn't know about the change, I'd be dead.
pppd hasn't changed those arguments in several years. I doubt if it ever
will - too many scripts depend on them.
craig
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