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[Arwed von Merkatz <v.merkatz AT gmx.net>]

On Sat, Apr 03, 2004 at 11:44:55PM +1000, Hamish Greig wrote:
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> Apologies in advance for asking this stupid question.
> Does our network initscript handle ppp or adsl/pppoe connections ? or is it 
> only for ethernet ?
> If not, could ppp (dialup) and rp-pppoe users please tell me if they use a 
> different script to bring up their network, or if they have to do it 
> manually, what command they use.
> Also I find minicom hasn't been included on the ISO for some time, is it no 
> longer needed, should it be replaced by wvdial or something else ? (over 2 
> years since I dealt with a ppp modem connection)
> I know it must seem like I am being lazy here, but as I don't actually have 
> either types of hardware to test this on I don't have much chance to test 
> experiment and learn in my usual fashion.
 
I'm not sure if our network scripts can handle pppoe, i use a custom
script for that (attached) using rp-pppoe.
Manual start of pppoe network with rp-pppoe is done with 'adsl-start'
after configuring it with 'adsl-setup'.

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Arwed v. Merkatz                              Source Mage GNU/Linux developer
                                                    http://www.sourcemage.org
#!/bin/sh

RUNLEVEL=3

. /etc/init.d/smgl_init

case $1 in
    start)  echo      "Starting adsl."
            (
              unset -f echo
              /usr/sbin/adsl-start > /dev/null 2>&1
            )
            evaluate_retval
            ;;
              
     stop)  echo      "Stopping adsl."
            /usr/sbin/adsl-stop > /dev/null 2>&1
            evaluate_retval
            ;;

  restart)  $0  stop  &&
            $0  start
            ;;

   status)  /usr/sbin/adsl-status
            ;;
        *)  echo  "Usage: $0 {start|stop|restart|status}"
            ;;
esac