James Andrewartha 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.
The trivial solution to this, which everyone overlooks, is to actually specify unit number in ppp instead of trying to rename the interface. use unit=100 for PPoE and write your firewall rules to refer to ppp100. That's all. Yes it's not as elegant as giving some nice name like 'pppoe-wan', but it definitely works. /mjt -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
