From owner-freebsd-stable Tue Oct 28 17:48:46 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id RAA09312 for stable-outgoing; Tue, 28 Oct 1997 17:48:46 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-stable) Received: from panda.hilink.com.au (panda.hilink.com.au [203.8.15.25]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id RAA09305 for ; Tue, 28 Oct 1997 17:48:39 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from danny@panda.hilink.com.au) Received: (from danny@localhost) by panda.hilink.com.au (8.8.5/8.8.5) id MAA19039; Wed, 29 Oct 1997 12:52:33 +1100 (EST) Date: Wed, 29 Oct 1997 12:52:32 +1100 (EST) From: "Daniel O'Callaghan" To: Brian Somers cc: =?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: <199710290021.AAA04036@awfulhak.demon.co.uk> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Wed, 29 Oct 1997, Brian Somers wrote: > > Michael V. Harding wrote: > > > > > > I have "ppp -auto someplace" in my "rc.local" file. As of the recent > > > builds, this no longer starts ppp. This is a problem for me, as I > > > admin some remote sites, and if they get rebooted, there's no way for > > > me to contact them. > > > > > > Any suggestions as to where to start PPP? > > > > > > Thanks, > > > > > > Mike Harding > > > > I start "ppp -auto" in /usr/local/etc/rc.d and works fine for me > > 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. Danny /* Daniel O'Callaghan */ /* HiLink Internet danny@hilink.com.au */ /* FreeBSD - works hard, plays hard... danny@freebsd.org */