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Subject: Re: How do I specify a unit for ppp?
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----- Original Message -----
From: "Dan Langille" <dan@langille.org>
To: <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>
Sent: Wednesday, April 02, 2003 8:12 AM
Subject: How do I specify a unit for ppp?


> >From man ppp I see this:
>
>   The -unit flag tells ppp to only attempt to open /dev/tunN.
>
> I want it to use tun0.  I can't see a way to specify a unit in
> /etc/rc.conf.
>
> Clues?
> --
> Dan Langille : http://www.langille.org/

We really need a ppp_flags variable in /etc/rc.conf which is recognized by
/etc/rc.network for this kind of thing.
Then you could specificy ppp_flags="-unit 0" in /etc/rc.conf and be on your
way.

Patches against 4.7-REL (sorry, I don't have an up-to-date -stable box).
Comments requested; I will submit a PR with patches against -stable later
today.

--- rc.network.orig     Wed Apr  2 08:23:43 2003
+++ rc.network  Wed Apr  2 08:24:07 2003
@@ -284,7 +284,7 @@
                        ;;
                esac

-               ppp_command="${ppp_command} ${ppp_profile}"
+               ppp_command="${ppp_command} ${ppp_flags} ${ppp_profile}"

                echo "Starting ppp as \"${ppp_user}\""
                su -m ${ppp_user} -c "exec ${ppp_command}"

--- defaults/rc.conf.orig       Wed Apr  2 08:23:12 2003
+++ defaults/rc.conf    Wed Apr  2 08:23:36 2003
@@ -108,6 +108,7 @@
 ppp_nat="YES"          # Use PPP's internal network address translation or
NO.
 ppp_profile="papchap"  # Which profile to use from /etc/ppp/ppp.conf.
 ppp_user="root"                # Which user to run ppp as
+ppp_flags=""           # Additional flags to pass to ppp(8).

 ### Network daemon (miscellaneous) ###
 syslogd_enable="YES"           # Run syslog daemon (or NO).

--
Matt Emmerton