On Sat, 10 Oct 2009, Michael Tokarev wrote: > 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.
No, this doesn't work, as I want to firewall all the PPTP interfaces with rules including 'ppp+' which will match ppp100. -- # TRS-80 trs80(a)ucc.gu.uwa.edu.au #/ "Otherwise Bub here will do \ # UCC Wheel Member http://trs80.ucc.asn.au/ #| what squirrels do best | [ "There's nobody getting rich writing ]| -- Collect and hide your | [ software that I know of" -- Bill Gates, 1980 ]\ nuts." -- Acid Reflux #231 / -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
