How do you get pppoe to come up with system start up?

Mike Bird mgb-ubuntu at yosemite.net
Mon Dec 12 00:43:08 UTC 2005


On Sun, 2005-12-11 at 14:56, Rick Berger wrote:
> I just tried sudo pppoeconf, again in a terminal, and it still doesn't
> establish a connection when I boot.

pppoeconf appends something like the following to your
/etc/network/interfaces.  If yours is broken you may have
to fix it up to look a bit more like this example.  Your
system may be using a different name than dsl-provider.

>auto dsl-provider
>iface dsl-provider inet ppp
>provider dsl-provider
>
># added by pppoeconf
>auto eth1
>    iface eth1 inet manual
>
>    pre-up /sbin/ifconfig eth1 up # line maintained by pppoeconf

--Mike Bird





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