Changing interface names in pppd, where is the ifname option?

[Josef Wolf]

On Tue, Mar 24, 2009 at 03:19:23PM -0400, H.S. wrote:
> Josef Wolf wrote:
> > Hello,
> > 
> > I have multiple ADSL lines running ppp.  This works fine except of
> > one problem:  The interface names keep changing.  Sometimes the first
> > line is on ppp0, sometimes it is on ppp1, sometimes on ppp2, and so
> > on.  The same happens for the second line too.
> > 
> > I see that pppd in other distros has the "ifname" option to assign
> > a stable interface name for a given peer.  This option seems not to
> > exist in ubuntu's pppd.
> > 
> > What happened to this option?  Is there any other way to get stable
> > interface names in ubuntu?
> 
> Perhaps you are looking for ifrename? Do
> $> apt-cache show ifrename

Thanks for the suggestion!

Which repository contains this package?  I have enabled universe and
multiverse, but apt don't find it.