Bug#325366: forced to run pppoeconf every time to make a dsl connection
Package: pppoeconf Version: 1.7 Severity: important Installed sarge. Ran pppoeconf asking for pppd to be run at boot time. Connection was made succesfully. However, upon rebooting the system, the command # pon dsl-provider Plugin rp-pppoe.so loaded. failed to establish an internet connection this time. Re-running pppoeconf as before resolves the problem and establishes a new connection. I'm expecting to run pppoeconf to configure my system so that I can run "pon dsl-provider" and "poff" to connect and disconnect from the internet. Note: I've added pppoe to /etc/modules, but this does not help. Also, in /etc/ppp I have a file: ppp_on_boot.dsl but not a file: ppp_on_boot Thanks, Phill -- System Information: Debian Release: 3.1 Architecture: i386 (i686) Kernel: Linux 2.4.27-2-386 Locale: LANG=en_CA, LC_CTYPE=en_CA (charmap=ISO-8859-1) Versions of packages pppoeconf depends on: ii gettext-base0.14.4-2 GNU Internationalization utilities ii ppp 2.4.3-20050321+2 Point-to-Point Protocol (PPP) daem ii pppoe 3.5-4PPP over Ethernet driver ii sed 4.1.2-8 The GNU sed stream editor ii whiptail [whiptail-prov 0.51.6-20Displays user-friendly dialog boxe -- no debconf information -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Bug#325366: forced to run pppoeconf every time to make a dsl connection
reassign 325366 pppd retitle 325366 No way to force an action before a pppoe action going up thanks > Installed sarge. Ran pppoeconf asking for pppd to be > run at boot time. Connection was made succesfully. > However, upon rebooting the system, the command > > # pon dsl-provider > Plugin rp-pppoe.so loaded. > > failed to establish an internet connection this time. > Re-running pppoeconf as before resolves the problem > and establishes a new connection. > > I'm expecting to run pppoeconf to configure my system > so that I can run "pon dsl-provider" and "poff" to > connect and disconnect from the internet. No. You are expected either to use "ifup dsl-provider" or ask the ppp maintainer what he has though before throwing out the "auto-interface-up" patch from the ppp package without any good reasons or a working solution to achieve the same functionality. OTOH I expect him to say the F word and close this bug immediately... that is too sad. Cheers, Eduard. -- Wie man sein Kind nicht nennen sollte: Anna Logie -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Bug#325366: forced to run pppoeconf every time to make a dsl connection
#include * Marco d'Itri [Tue, Aug 30 2005, 01:45:00PM]: > On Aug 28, Eduard Bloch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > No. You are expected either to use "ifup dsl-provider" or ask the ppp > > maintainer what he has though before throwing out the > > "auto-interface-up" patch from the ppp package without any good reasons > > or a working solution to achieve the same functionality. > You know what I tought, so there is no point in reassigning bugs you > know I do not accept. > > ppp works on configured interfaces, that's all. Fix the system to > configure them. Easy to say. Please tell me which options I have and which still DO WORK with pon. You have closed my request to link pon and ifup with the same crap of explanation. Eduard. -- Lorien: It's easy to find something worth dying for. Do you have anything worth living for? -- Quotes from Babylon 5 --
Bug#325366: forced to run pppoeconf every time to make a dsl connection
On Aug 30, Eduard Bloch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Easy to say. Please tell me which options I have and which still DO WORK > with pon. You have closed my request to link pon and ifup with the same > crap of explanation. Ethernet interfaces must be configured as ethernet interfaces in /etc/network/interfaces. This way they will be automatically brought up on boot. A configured IP address is useful to communicate with the modem management address, but if you do not want to configure one then you can use the "manual" directive. -- ciao, Marco signature.asc Description: Digital signature
Bug#325366: forced to run pppoeconf every time to make a dsl connection
#include * Marco d'Itri [Tue, Aug 30 2005, 03:17:38PM]: > On Aug 30, Eduard Bloch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Easy to say. Please tell me which options I have and which still DO WORK > > with pon. You have closed my request to link pon and ifup with the same > > crap of explanation. > Ethernet interfaces must be configured as ethernet interfaces in > /etc/network/interfaces. This way they will be automatically brought up > on boot. > A configured IP address is useful to communicate with the modem > management address, but if you do not want to configure one then you can Most modems used with PPPoE do not have management interfaces. There is often not much use for an IP adress. > use the "manual" directive. The manual directive does not bring the interface up. And there should be no reason to polute the config with it anyways. Any other options? Programs should be error tolerant. ppp isn't since you have deliberately removed the interface-up patch. And your arguments sound like "it is okay for df to segfault if /dev is not mounted with udev since everybody has to use udev" or similar things, the same radical kind of argumentation not very close to reality. Regards, Eduard. -- [Surveying a scene in a bar below] Sebastian: Nothing changes: Decadence, immorality, chaos. -- Quotes from Babylon 5 -- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Bug#325366: forced to run pppoeconf every time to make a dsl connection
On Aug 30, Eduard Bloch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Most modems used with PPPoE do not have management interfaces. There is > often not much use for an IP adress. This is not my experience. > > use the "manual" directive. > The manual directive does not bring the interface up. And there should > be no reason to polute the config with it anyways. iface eth0 inet manual pre-up ip link set up $IFACE I do not believe this is "pollution". You have a network interface, so you need to configure it. > Any other options? Programs should be error tolerant. ppp isn't since > you have deliberately removed the interface-up patch. And your arguments It was an ugly hack rejected by the upstream maintainer. There is not much else to add. -- ciao, Marco signature.asc Description: Digital signature
