From owner-freebsd-stable Wed Oct 29 14:46:36 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id OAA21695 for stable-outgoing; Wed, 29 Oct 1997 14:46:36 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-stable) Received: from awfulhak.demon.co.uk (awfulhak.demon.co.uk [158.152.17.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id OAA21665 for ; Wed, 29 Oct 1997 14:45:43 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from brian@awfulhak.org) Received: from gate.lan.awfulhak.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by awfulhak.demon.co.uk (8.8.7/8.8.5) with ESMTP id WAA12333; Wed, 29 Oct 1997 22:39:09 GMT Message-Id: <199710292239.WAA12333@awfulhak.demon.co.uk> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.0zeta 7/24/97 To: "Daniel O'Callaghan" cc: Brian Somers , =?iso-8859-1?Q?=DEor=F0ur?= Ivarsson , "Michael V. Harding" , freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: How to start "ppp -auto" on boot? In-reply-to: Your message of "Wed, 29 Oct 1997 12:52:32 +1100." Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Wed, 29 Oct 1997 22:39:08 +0000 From: Brian Somers Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > > The best place is in /etc/start_if.tun0 (as suggested in the > > handbook). But remember, you should have a blank ifconfig_tun0= line > > in rc.conf. > > Oh? Why do you need the ifconfig_tun0? Works for me without. You *do* > need to list tun0 in the network_interfaces section. I reckon it's best so that it's obvious that it's intentionally blank. If you leave it out, some kind soul is gonna come along and ``fix'' it for you :-I > Danny > > /* Daniel O'Callaghan */ > /* HiLink Internet danny@hilink.com.au */ > /* FreeBSD - works hard, plays hard... danny@freebsd.org */ > -- Brian , , Don't _EVER_ lose your sense of humour....