Summary: | Name ppp devices arbitrarily | ||
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Product: | Gentoo Hosted Projects | Reporter: | Stuart Longland (RETIRED) <redhatter> |
Component: | netifrc | Assignee: | netifrc Team <netifrc> |
Status: | CONFIRMED --- | ||
Severity: | enhancement | ||
Priority: | Normal | ||
Version: | unspecified | ||
Hardware: | All | ||
OS: | Linux | ||
Whiteboard: | netifrc:pppd | ||
Package list: | Runtime testing required: | --- |
Description
Stuart Longland (RETIRED)
2012-12-02 09:05:45 UTC
Just noticed this: http://ppp.samba.org/cgi-bin/ppp-bugs/incoming?id=1840;expression=rename;user=guest which renames the ppp device to the parameter given as the `linkname`. I think we need to see if that patch you linked is merged upstream yet. (In reply to Robin Johnson from comment #2) > I think we need to see if that patch you linked is merged upstream yet. it's not in latest ppp stable (2.4.5-r3) From man page for pppd (2.5.0): linkname name Sets the logical name of the link to name. Pppd will create a file named ppp-name.pid in /var/run (or /etc/ppp on some systems) containing its process ID. This can be useful in determining which instance of pppd is responsible for the link to a given peer system. This is a privileged option. It should also be from 2.5.1 onwards be possible to rename interfaces from net-pre-up script based on arbitrary criteria. Just not sure how that would integrate with netifrc, we don't have a specific need for this. |