Re: Etch desktop: switching between ppp and ethernet network connections

2008-02-14 Thread Mikko Rapeli
On Thu, Feb 07, 2008 at 12:31:43AM +0200, Mikko Rapeli wrote: > I've also tried GNOME's network-admin, but that seems to fail with ppp > interfaces. All I get is a "Could not enable interface ppp0". This got resolved as I had broken network profiles which replaced working configuration files with

Re: Etch desktop: switching between ppp and ethernet network connections

2008-02-06 Thread Mikko Rapeli
; later plugged, ifplugd activates eth0. When cable is unplugged only > /etc/resolv.conf is hosed since the ppp0 stayed up all the time. I hope > I can fix this with resolvconf, although I've had bad experiences with it Indeed, resolvconf works as I thought with ppp and ethernet devices.

Etch desktop: switching between ppp and ethernet network connections

2008-02-06 Thread Mikko Rapeli
Ok, I think I've tried everything but I can't get automation and userfriendlyness into etch based networking, so I'm asking for help. How to setup ppp/gprs modem connection and ethernet/dhcp in etch so that: - ethernet connection is used when cable is plugged in and dhcp client finds a lease,

PPP and Ethernet

1998-04-20 Thread Richard L. Alhama
I work for an ISP here in the Philippines. I have a permanent ethernet connection to the Internet and would like to use my modem to dial-up to our router which assigns dynamic IP addresses. Anyway, the purpose of dialing to our router is to monitor the dial-up lines and to check the connection ra