Re: problem of bringing up pppoe on boot

[Yuwen Dai <yuwend@gmail.com>]

2005/5/23, Marty <martyb@ix.netcom.com>:
> Yuwen Dai wrote:
> > Deal all,
> >
> > I used /etc/ppp/ppp_on_boot to have pppoe bring up on boot time.
> > Although ppp_on_boot is an obsolete method, it worked well untill I
> > made an "apt-get dist-upgrade" yesterday.
> >
> > My Linux box has two ethernet cards, eth1 for internal networking and
> > eth0 for pppoe. I found eth0 is not up when the the system boots, eth1
> > is OK.
> >
> > I read the /usr/share/doc/ppp/readme.Debian.gz. Added these lines to
> > /etc/network/interfaces:
> > auto eth0
> > iface eth0 inet ppp
> >         provider dsl-provider
> >
> > But eth0 wasn't up after /etc/init.d/network had run.   I have to manually run
> >
> > ifconfig eth0 up
> >
> > before I run
> >
> > pon dsl-provider
> >
> > What's the correct way to bring up pppoe on boot time?  Thanks in advance.
> >
> > Best regards,
> > Dai Yuwen
> >
> >
> 
> Just a guess, but if you use the "demand" keyword in the dsl-provider
> file, to enable demand-dialing, then one of two things might happen,
> first, you are not trying to send a packet to the connection is not
> initiated, or secondly you do try to send a packet but for some reason
> it doesn't get recognized as a WAN packet and consequently does not
> trigger the dialup.  (I'm pretty sure I've experienced the second
> problem and while I don't recall the details, it involved a DNS catch-22
> type issue.  I think the resolution was changing my default resolve.conf
> settings.)
> 

Hi, Marty

Thank you.  I resolved the problem by adding lines in 
/etc/network/interfaces:

auto ppp0
iface ppp0 inet ppp
     provider dsl-provider
     pre-up /sbin/ifconfig eth0 up 

Now eth0 is brought up automatically before dialing.

Best regards,
Dai Yuwen