From: Kendall Lister (krl@cs.mu.OZ.AU)
Date: Tue May 15 2001 - 02:48:47 PDT
On Mon, 14 May 2001, Greg Stewart wrote:
> Kendall's correct... your device should be ppp0. But, if my memory
> isn't failing me, using a GUI dialer such as kppp (if it's still
> around) may not have created the device "ppp0" for you.
>
> I would use something like linuxconf to check the PPP/SLIP/PLIP
> options in networking for the device ppp0, and if it's not there
> already, create it.
>
> It's been a long time since I configured a modem under linux, so
> things may have changed, but I remember the GUI dialers doing
> something different from any manual configuration I made. After a
> while, I simply gave up on the GUIs and used if-up/if-down for my
> dial-ups. I've been on cable for too long to remember the specifics,
> though.
Good point - some dialers do strange things. However, the kernel assigns
the interface number, not the dialer - in fact, I believe that it is
actually impossible to predict which pppX name your PPP interface (it's
not really exactly a device, I think) will have without looking at all the
previously created devices. Has this behaviour changed? (My experience is
from the 2.0 kernel, so it could be a little out of date..).
Kendall Lister
krl@cs.mu.oz.au
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