On Wed, Apr 06, 2005 at 05:54:54PM +0200, Thomas Hood wrote: > On Wed, 2005-04-06 at 16:57 +0200, Joerg Dorchain wrote: > > Maybe ifup and ifdown can use the environment variables to see > > whether they are run from hotplug scripts or not and accordingly leave > > pppd alone if they are. > > > It is easier to modify hotplug's net.agent script so that it avoids > calling ifdown if the interface is a PPP one. An even cleaner solution > would be to implement #303383; then PPP interfaces would be neither > upped nor downed by hotplug by default (as with all other kinds of > interfaces) and the administrator would enable hotplug control of PPP > interfaces by adding > > allow-hotplug ppp0 > > to /etc/network/interfaces.
This is a generalization of the auto keyword. Great! Go for it, if my voice counts. Bye, Joerg
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