Bug#543612: pppd can't find the interface and dies if it's been renamed by udev

James Andrewartha wrote: On Sat, 10 Oct 2009, Michael Tokarev wrote: James Andrewartha wrote: I want to run a PPPoE client on a server that also runs a PPTP daemon (poptop). For firewalling reasons, I need to rename the ppp interface used by the PPPoE connection so it doesn't match ppp+

Bug#543612: pppd can't find the interface and dies if it's been renamed by udev

James Andrewartha wrote: [] I understand it's all workarounds, easily doable but maybe not as elegant as possible. In my case the workaround is to use a separate router running OpenWRT to manage the PPPoE connection. The fact that workarounds exist doesn't change the fact it's a valid bug,

Bug#543612: pppd can't find the interface and dies if it's been renamed by udev

On Sun, 11 Oct 2009, Michael Tokarev wrote: James Andrewartha wrote: On Sat, 10 Oct 2009, Michael Tokarev wrote: James Andrewartha wrote: I want to run a PPPoE client on a server that also runs a PPTP daemon (poptop). For firewalling reasons, I need to rename the ppp

Bug#543612: pppd can't find the interface and dies if it's been renamed by udev

On Sun, 11 Oct 2009, Michael Tokarev wrote: James Andrewartha wrote: [] I understand it's all workarounds, easily doable but maybe not as elegant as possible. In my case the workaround is to use a separate router running OpenWRT to manage the PPPoE connection. The fact that

Bug#543612: pppd can't find the interface and dies if it's been renamed by udev

James Andrewartha wrote: On Sun, 11 Oct 2009, Michael Tokarev wrote: [] [] The fact that workarounds exist doesn't change the fact it's a valid bug, albeit one that's very difficult to fix given the current architecture of pppd. Well, the patch is simple enough really. Really? How do you

Bug#543612: pppd can't find the interface and dies if it's been renamed by udev

James Andrewartha wrote: I want to run a PPPoE client on a server that also runs a PPTP daemon (poptop). For firewalling reasons, I need to rename the ppp interface used by the PPPoE connection so it doesn't match ppp+ which is used for matching the PPTP connections. However, when using

Bug#543612: pppd can't find the interface and dies if it's been renamed by udev

On Sat, 10 Oct 2009, Michael Tokarev wrote: James Andrewartha wrote: I want to run a PPPoE client on a server that also runs a PPTP daemon (poptop). For firewalling reasons, I need to rename the ppp interface used by the PPPoE connection so it doesn't match ppp+ which is used for

Bug#543612: pppd can't find the interface and dies if it's been renamed by udev

On Thu, Sep 03, 2009 at 04:50:37PM +0800, James Andrewartha wrote: On Wed, 26 Aug 2009, Marco d'Itri wrote: On Aug 26, James Andrewartha tr...@ucc.gu.uwa.edu.au wrote: I want to run a PPPoE client on a server that also runs a PPTP daemon (poptop). For firewalling reasons, I need

Bug#543612: pppd can't find the interface and dies if it's been renamed by udev

On Wed, 26 Aug 2009, Marco d'Itri wrote: On Aug 26, James Andrewartha tr...@ucc.gu.uwa.edu.au wrote: I want to run a PPPoE client on a server that also runs a PPTP daemon (poptop). For firewalling reasons, I need to rename the ppp interface used by the PPPoE connection so it

Bug#543612: pppd can't find the interface and dies if it's been renamed by udev

On Aug 26, James Andrewartha tr...@ucc.gu.uwa.edu.au wrote: I want to run a PPPoE client on a server that also runs a PPTP daemon (poptop). For firewalling reasons, I need to rename the ppp interface used by the PPPoE connection so it doesn't match ppp+ which is used for matching the PPTP

Bug#543612: pppd can't find the interface and dies if it's been renamed by udev

Package: ppp Version: 2.4.4rel-10.1 Severity: normal I want to run a PPPoE client on a server that also runs a PPTP daemon (poptop). For firewalling reasons, I need to rename the ppp interface used by the PPPoE connection so it doesn't match ppp+ which is used for matching the PPTP connections.