On 11/10/07, Jacob Yocom-Piatt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Mitja Mu>enih wrote: > > I just found the hard way that my old hostname.pppoe0 file which used to > > work under 4.1 causes a spectacular failure on 4.2. > > > > # sh /etc/netstart pppoe0 > > ifconfig: SIOCSIFGENERIC(SPPPIOSDEFS): Device busy > > > > The reason turned out to be a whitespace character after the \ sign in > > hostname.pppoe0. > > > > Simplest way to recreate is to take the example from man and add a > > whitespace at the end of the first or second line after \. > > > > # cat hostname.pppoe0 > > inet 0.0.0.0 255.255.255.255 NONE \ > > pppoedev vr2 authproto chap \ > > authname 'xxxx' authkey 'yyyy' up > > dest 0.0.0.1 > > > > Can somebody verify this? All my pppoe machines are remote. > > can verify that i had similar problems: updated to 4.2-release from 4.1 > on i386 with working hostname.pppoe0; read manpage, changed format > slightly to the one you show above; all attempts at getting the > interface to come up did not work, however, on reboot pppoe0 came up and > is working; have not fiddled since > > based on the troubles i had, i would not even consider upgrading a > remote machine that uses pppoe until i could get this to work cleanly on > a local machine. maybe pre-empting the change in hostname.pppoe syntax > could do it, not sure. still have yet to upgrade my pppoe machines at > work, can try this tomorrow and report back.
Had a similar issue when upgrading from 4.1--syntax changed--but I have no whitespace issue. I simply updated hostname.pppoe0 per the man page and it works like it did before--but now I actually see the gateway output in ifconfig pppoe0.
