On Tue, 1 Feb 2000, Clarence Donath wrote:
> > > On Tue, 1 Feb 2000, Clarence Donath wrote:
> > >
> > > Doh! No response on my question. I'll try one more time, then I'll post
> in
> > > Bugzilla. Thanks.
> > >
> > > ------------------
> > >
> > > Since RH6.0, a ppp1 connection will show up as ppp0 in ifconfig. Is there
> > > something I can tweak so ifconfig shows me which ppp is actually up?
>
> > Can you be a little bit more specific? What exactly do you expect ifconfig
> > to show?
> >
> > Misa
>
> Sure :)
>
> When I run ifconfig I get:
>
> eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:00:1B:4C:F9:42
> inet addr:192.168.1.1 Bcast:192.168.1.255 Mask:255.255.255.0
> UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
> RX packets:209806 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
> TX packets:56793 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
> collisions:30 txqueuelen:100
> Interrupt:5 Base address:0x300
>
> lo Link encap:Local Loopback
> inet addr:127.0.0.1 Mask:255.0.0.0
> UP LOOPBACK RUNNING MTU:3924 Metric:1
> RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
> TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
> collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
>
> ppp0 Link encap:Point-to-Point Protocol
> inet addr:209.113.185.169 P-t-P:209.150.4.3 Mask:255.255.255.255
> UP POINTOPOINT RUNNING NOARP MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
> RX packets:2911 errors:1 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:1
> TX packets:2941 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
> collisions:0 txqueuelen:10
>
> If I bring down ppp0 and bring up ppp1, it will always show ppp0. I can't tell
> by ifconfig whether ppp0 or ppp1 is up. It used to show ppp1 when ppp1 was up
> using ifconfig for Red Hat v5.2, but since 6.0 it always says ppp0 no matter
> which ppp is up.
I've had the same problem (trying to bring up ipchains rules by
device name). It's not possible to tell pppd to run on a certain ppp
interface; it will just use the first free one.
I guess you shouldn't rely on the ppp name, but rather on the ip
address. Or, if you really need the interface, try to tweak
/etc/ppp/ipup-local to write the interface name into a file, and then read
the file.
Quote from pppd's manual page:
/etc/ppp/ip-up
A program or script which is executed when the link is available for
sending and receiving IP packets (that is, IPCP has come up). It is
executed with the parameters
interface-name tty-device speed local-IP-address remote-IP-address
ipparam
So, it takes some scripting to do it...
HTH
Misa
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