From: John Breen (john@fairport.com.au)
Date: Tue May 15 2001 - 19:34:48 PDT
AFAIR, kppp (and rhppp and the others that do this job) are either a GUI
frontend to a pppd script or to wvdial (which uses pppd). If they're
setting up a ppp connection, then they should surely create the ppp0 (or
ppp1...) device...
----- Original Message -----
From: "Kendall Lister" <krl@cs.mu.OZ.AU>
To: <pmfirewall@pointman.org>
Sent: Tuesday, May 15, 2001 5:48 PM
Subject: Re: [pmfirewall] $OUTERIF
> 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 from the 2.0 kernel, so it could be a little out of date..).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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