Re: Network stopped coming up on boot

[David Baron <d_baron@012.net.il>]

On Tuesday 23 March 2004 10:10, debian-user-digest-request@lists.debian.org 
wrote:
> > If you're talking about having a ppp network interface started
> > automatically and unconditionally at boot time, then there is a file
> > "/etc/ppp/ppp_on_boot", that, if present, causes this to happen. The
> > logic for this is in "/etc/init.d/ppp". The default Debian action is for
> > the "ppp_on_boot" file to be named "/etc/ppp/no_ppp_on_boot". There are
> > comments in 'no_ppp_on_boot' that discuss this and what should be done to
> > bring up the ppp interfaces you want at boot time.
>
> I apparently lost the script /etc/init.d/ppp. Where can I get a copy :-)

Got it from the knoppix CD and the network is working again.
I am no longer getting the "deconfiguring" message/task on shutdown, however, 
and if-down is still reporting several attempts at a ppp1 interface which 
does not exist. These attempts are at the start of (or before) the shutdown 
sequence.