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

[H.S.]

Josef Wolf wrote:
> 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.
> 

er .. this is weird. It appears to have been in Gutsy (in Universe) and
not in more recent Ubuntu versions. It is in Debian though. So if you
find no other option, you could always add a Debian repo and set up
/etc/apt/preferences such that only that package is pulled from Debian
repos and none other.



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