On Thu, Sep 03, 2009 at 04:50:37PM +0800, James Andrewartha wrote: > > On Wed, 26 Aug 2009, Marco d'Itri wrote: > > > On Aug 26, James Andrewartha <tr...@ucc.gu.uwa.edu.au> wrote: > > > > > I want to run a PPPoE client on a server that also runs a PPTP daemon > > > (poptop). > > > For firewalling reasons, I need to rename the ppp interface used by the > > > PPPoE > > > connection so it doesn't match ppp+ which is used for matching the PPTP > > > connections. However, when using udev to rename the interface, pppd then > > > can't > > > find the interface any more and dies. > > Send a patch, I have no idea about what needs to be changed to support > > renaming the interface created by pppd. You should probably change pppd > > to support arbitrary arguments to the unit configuration directive. > > I had a quick look at the source, and it uses int unit absolutely > everywhere as an identifier, so it's probably a lot of work to support > arbitrary interface names. I also tried filing a bug upstream, but it > never appeared. I guess I'm out of luck on getting this fixed. >
One of the SuSe guys wrote a patch a while ago for ppp 2.4.2. It's available here: http://marc.info/?l=linux-ppp&m=109025160924399&w=2 I'm not sure how much effort would be involved to port that up to the current ppp, though. Cheers, Peter -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
