I have two ISPs. Access to the Internet they provide through VPN connection. When I run my system (both net.ppp0 and net.ppp1 [simlink to net.ppp0] in the softlevel default) both net.ppp0 & net.ppp1 starts with "OK". But if I check ifconfig: ppp1 present, but ppp0 is not. I cannot start ppp0 manually if ppp1 started (error: ppp0 is already up). To start ppp0 I need to stop ppp1, start ppp0, wait some time (few seconds), and start ppp1. Installed: net-dialup/pptpclient-1.7.0 net-dialup/ppp-2.4.2-r15 emerge --info: Portage 2.0.51.22-r3 (default-linux/x86/2005.0, gcc-3.4.4, glibc-2.3.5-r2, 2.6.14-gentoo-r5 i686) ================================================================= System uname: 2.6.14-gentoo-r5 i686 Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 CPU 2.40GHz Gentoo Base System version 1.6.13 distcc 2.18.3 i686-pc-linux-gnu (protocols 1 and 2) (default port 3632) [enabled] ccache version 2.3 [enabled] dev-lang/python: 2.4.2 sys-apps/sandbox: 1.2.12 sys-devel/autoconf: 2.13, 2.59-r6 sys-devel/automake: 1.4_p6, 1.5, 1.6.3, 1.7.9-r1, 1.8.5-r3, 1.9.6-r1 sys-devel/binutils: 2.16.1 sys-devel/libtool: 1.5.20 virtual/os-headers: 2.6.11-r2 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86" AUTOCLEAN="yes" CBUILD="i686-pc-linux-gnu" CFLAGS="-O2 -march=pentium4 -fomit-frame-pointer -pipe -mtune=pentium4" CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/kde/2/share/config /usr/kde/3/share/config /usr/share/config /var/bind /var/qmail/control" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/gconf /etc/terminfo /etc/env.d" CXXFLAGS="-O2 -march=pentium4 -fomit-frame-pointer -pipe -mtune=pentium4" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" FEATURES="autoconfig ccache distcc distlocks sandbox sfperms strict" LANG="ru_RU.UTF-8" LINGUAS="en ru" MAKEOPTS="-j5 -s" PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/usr/local/portage" SYNC="rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" USE="x86 aac acpi alsa apache2 apm avi bash-completion berkdb bitmap-fonts bzip2 crypt cups eds emboss expat foomaticdb fortran gdbm glibc-omitfp gpm gstreamer gtk2 hal imlib ipv6 libg++ libwww mad matroska mbox mikmod mmx mmxext mp3 mpeg mpm-prefork ncurses nls nptl nptlonly ogg oggvorbis oss pam pcre pdflib perl ppds python qt quicktime readline rtc samba slang spell sse sse2 ssl tcpd threads tiff truetype-fonts type1-fonts udev unicode userlocales utf8 vorbis win32codecs xinetd xml2 zlib linguas_en linguas_ru userland_GNU kernel_linux elibc_glibc" Unset: ASFLAGS, CTARGET, LC_ALL, LDFLAGS
The net.ppp0 script installed by the current stable version of net-dialup/ppp is deprecated. It has been removed in net-dialup/ppp-2.4.3-r10 in favor of pppd net module available in >=sys-apps/baselayout-1.12.0_pre11.