Re: Why pppoe bothers to bring the interface up?

[Shyamal Prasad <shyamal.prasad@sbcglobal.net>]

    "Shaul" == Shaul Karl <shaulka@bezeqint.net> writes:

    Shaul>   /etc/ppp/ppp_on_boot.dsl has the following lines:
    # Bring the interface up
    /sbin/ifconfig $INTERFACE up
	
    Shaul> Why bother? Isn't /etc/rc0.d/S35networking guaranteed to
    Shaul> run before the pppoe has a chance to bring the interface
    Shaul> up?  --

/etc/init.d/networking will only bring up those interfaces that are
marked with the 'auto' keyword in /etc/networks/interfaces. 

Does that explain it (I don't use the ppp script so I don't know, I'm
guessing....)

/Shyamal