Network Settings tool, PPPoE DSL, Ubuntu 8.04

[Don Kelly]

On Mon, Jun 2, 2008 at 10:36 AM, Russell McOrmond <russell at flora.ca> wrote:
>   If nothing else works I may try doing this manually in the startup
> scripts (IE: `ifdown ppp0;ifdown eth0; ifup ppp0`), but want to know how
> common this is and whether this needs to be filed as a bug report.
>

There has (historically) been little relation b/w /etc/network (a
Debian concept) and NetworkManager. In order to use NetworkManager for
wireless interface control, I've had to disable everything except lo
in /etc/network/interfaces. I would assume the same goes for ppp.

Of course, this means no network w/o running the desktop (which seems
to be acceptable in the setting you've outlined). The alternative is
to configure ppp using /etc/network.

Also, I had to make this change a few revisions back, so it may be unnecessary.

Don Kelly/

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