Re: auto starting of ppp has stopped working
On Friday, August 1, 2014 12:20:02 PM UTC+5:30, Chris Bannister wrote:
> On Thu, Jul 31, 2014 at 09:32:08PM -0700, Rusi Mody wrote:
> > 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...
> Put it in /etc/modules. I hope that is still the place. BTW, a quick
> google should have helped with this ... was Google unhelpful in this
> instance?
A quick google tells me that there are all sorts of places:
/etc/{modules,modprobe.d,modules-load.d}
More googling tells me that other distros use other places.
Comparing my old (and working) debian with the current not-quite-working one
tells me that these have all changed some.
And so I begin to suspect the currently fashionable suspect: systemd :-)
Now if a band-aid solution is the best we can have, I'd prefer a user level one.
Meddling with a system-level file means all sorts of headaches at unexpected
points of time. eg when upgrading I am likely to get a dialog saying:
"Here is a file that is different from the system supplied one. Which do you want?"
I was more hoping for some new(?) /etc/network/interfaces stanza that would do
the job. [All my attempts so far on that front have not worked]
So for now I make do with this user-level bandaid:
$ cat ~/bin/pon
sudo modprobe pppoe
sudo pon dsl-provider
tl;dr:
1. It was working; and unexpectedly stopped
2. I would file a bug-report; not sure against what... pppoeconf maybe?
3. I suspect -- with insufficient evidence! -- systemd
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