On Wed, Apr 06, 2005 at 05:48:22PM +0200, Thomas Hood wrote: > On Wed, 2005-04-06 at 17:05 +0200, Marco d'Itri wrote: > > If persist is not used then starting pppd at boot time is not much > > useful, and this is the only sensible reason for starting it with > > ifupdown. > > > I think you are right: the majority of people who control PPP interfaces > with ifup/ifdown (rather than with pon/poff) are doing it because they > want PPP on boot. In that case they probably also add the "persist" > option by hand and in that case they don't want hotplug to ifdown the > PPP interface on loss of connection.
I had the impression that pon/poff were going to be deprecated in favour of using ifup/ifdown as with all other interfaces. Bye, Joerg
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