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Re: how do i create device ppp0 on commandline?



thanks a lot for the reply!


situation:
i came to the point, that i need something like superrescue-cd.
there is no default adsl dialup on it, as i know already.
what i know for sure, is that RoaringPenguin-pppoe is implemented on that cd and rp-pppoe/adsl is a user space driver. So adsl-dialup must be available on superrescue.

/usr/sbin/adsl-start
gave
cannot read configuration file /etc/ppp/pppoe.conf

it's not there and no link to /etc/sysconf/network-scripts/ifcfg-ppp0 either. i have a problem with that, because this should be the necessary config file for the rp-adsl-scripts. superrescue is built on rh7.2, it looks exactly the same on rh7.3(as well no link) but there it works!
anyway, then i forget the scripts and try by hand:

ifconfig eth0 up
(i have validated sucessfull networking before)
ifconfig ppp0 up
ppp0: unknown interface: no such device
pppoe -A eth0  => works as it should be!
pppd pty 'pppoe -I eth0' => no error-reply
ifconf  => shows still only eth0
ifconf ppp0 up => still no ppp0

that's were i'm stuck right now.
after i read the man pages.
next would be getting any and all doc's about pppoe/adsl and reading the scripts, but i'm not confident on that.
i would be really glad if you have any hint for me...


el


p.s. should have been sending this msg some hours before, to be as
     instant as you, but i tried and read and tried and ... you know...



nate wrote:
el said:

hi,

how do i create device ppp0
(not on the rescue-cd-ramdisk per default)
with commandline commands?



you usually do not do this directly, you would generally use
pppd as a front end to ppp, what are you trying to do?

ppp is not possible without support in the kernel(either static
or as a module).

there is no ppp "device" in /dev if thats what your referring to.
network "devices" are accessed via 'ifconfig'

nate





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