Re: About boot scripts and pppoe [was Dydns service]

["H. S." <greatexcalibur@yahoo.com>]

Apparently, _Deboo ^_, on 05/10/2005 01:06 PM,typed:

> I figured this out (or RTFMed). It was simple: ddclient -use=if ppp0 .
> That's all that was needed and I put this in a script that scarts ppp
> at bootup (a script under /etc/rc.boot) The only thing now is that
> most of the times, pppd hasn't yet got an IP from the router and
> ddclient starts up. I have given a sleep time for ddclient as 3 mintes
> but even this much is less and it fails when the ppp0 IP takes more
> time.
>
> Same thing happens with ipmasq which also is started along with
> ddclient. Then lots of ipmasq junk comes on the screen and it's hard
> to type a command or even login ( i need to keep pressing Ctrl - L).
> Is there a solution to this? Previously it never used to take long to
> get  the IP address. Is there a way I can make this proicess faster? I
> use pppoe.
>
> And is there  way I can execute the scripts that I have under
> /etc/rc.boot? Like the scripts under /etc/rcx.d hev a number
> associated with them and when they get executed?
>
> Regards,
> Deboo

Shot in the dark:
I haven't really looked at this, but isn't there a method of listing 
ppp0 in /etc/network/interfaces? I keep getting this message at bootup 
that this is the newer method but I could be completely wrong. Now, if 
that is possible, you could just put
"up ddclient ...." or whatever the command you want to give
so that it is executed after ppp0 comes up (I assume ppp0 has an IP by 
the time is comes up else it doesn't come up at all).

Please take my comments above with a grain of salt. I mean to look into 
this one of these days and use the D-Link router I am using for 
something else while making an old Linux box as the gateway ...... one 
of these days :)

->HS


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