8409 – Problem with pppd when booting

Bug 8409 - Problem with pppd when booting

Summary: Problem with pppd when booting

Status:	RESOLVED FIXED

Alias:	None

Product:	Gentoo Linux
Classification:	Unclassified
Component:	[OLD] Core system (show other bugs)
Hardware:	x86 Linux

Importance:	High normal (vote)
Assignee:	Martin Schlemmer (RETIRED)

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Reported:	2002-09-26 06:21 UTC by David Manley
Modified:	2003-02-04 19:42 UTC (History)
CC List:	0 users

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Description David Manley 2002-09-26 06:21:14 UTC

When booting I get "unrecognized option 'isp'" from pppd where isp is the name
of my ISP as defined in /etc/conf.d/net.ppp0.

The problem appears to be that the environmental parameter ${DEVICE} is not set
when /etc/init.d/net.ppp0 is executed. A workround is to set DEVICE="0" somewhere
in /etc/conf.d/net.ppp0.

There is also some confusion in the use, within /etc/init.d/net.ppp0, of the 
parameters ${DEVICE} (which I am assuming should be set to "0") and ${IFACE}
(which is set to "ppp0"). This results in the daemon not being brought down
correctly.

Comment 1 Martin Schlemmer (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2002-09-29 05:56:18 UTC

Yeah I know ... change it to IFACE.  It is already fixed on CVS.