Re: auto starting of ppp has stopped working

[Rusi Mody <rustompmody@gmail.com>]

On Friday, August 1, 2014 12:10:02 AM UTC+5:30, Rusi Mody wrote:
> After some recent upgrades (this is on jessie)
> auto starting of ppp has stopped working.
> 
> 
> So every time after booting I now have to run pppoeconf.

Some progress... and a different question:

Doing:

# pon dsl-provider

I get:

Plugin rp-pppoe.so loaded.
Couldn't open the /dev/ppp device: No such file or directory
Linux kernel does not support PPPoE -- are you running 2.4.x?

However:
# modprobe pppoe

pulls in pppox and ppp_generic as well.

After that
# pon dsl-provider

works


So now the question is:

What is the 'modern' way of automatically doing 'modprobe pppoe'
at boot/ifup time?

Evidently something has changed that has made that stop happening...