On January 25, 2018 1:45:03 AM Bruce Dubbs <[email protected]> wrote:
Tim Tassonis wrote:
Hi all
I just setup a VDSL router with LFS, adding ppp to it and then setting up
the interface in rc.firewall. Which of course is not really optimal...
As currenty, blfs seems to have no support of ppp network devices, I was
wondering wheter blfs could include
- an instruction to build ppp
- a simple ppp service script
I used the standard ppp from samba org:
https://download.samba.org/pub/ppp/ppp-2.4.7.tar.gz
As bringing up a ppp interface usually requires a configfile in
/etc/ppp/peers/ with some details, the service maybe should leave any
details away and just allow something like that:
ifconfig.ppp0:
ONBOOT="yes"
IFACE="enp1s0"
PPP_IFACE="ppp0"
PEERNAME="dslprovider"
MANAGE_IFACE="yes"
The service script would then just call
/usr/sbin/pppd call dslprovider
and in case of MANAGE_IFACE="yes"
bring up IFACE befoe, calling by
/sbin/ip link set dev enp1s0 up
If there is any interest, I would provide a service script and compile
instructions for ppp.
I personally have no interest. What do you use ppp to do? AFAIK it is
ancient technology.
I fully agree that it's legacy technology. Here in Switzerland, pppoe is
still used a lot for VDSL internet connectivity, but in the long run will
be replaces by fibre. But if nobody else cares, it's totally fine with me.
-- Bruce
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