pppoe at start up [Solved]

[zhidayat]

Hi,
I have been able to to connect to the internet using pppoe-setup. Is there any way to make the connection work without typing pppoe-start as root after boot? I find this thread
viewtopic.php?f=52&t=14184&p=81443&hilit=pppoe#p81443
but the link inside it is not exist anymore. Thank you in advance.

[Fitzcarraldo]

Don't use it myself, but it's going to be something like:

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# rc-update add rp-pppoe default

and then reboot to check it runs automatically.

[zhidayat]

Gives error

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rc-update: service `rp-pppoe' does not exist

[Fitzcarraldo]

Have a look in /etc/init.d/ to see what you've got. Try:

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rc-update add net.ppp0 default

See the ADSL and PPPoE section in Gentoo Linux - Home Router Guide.

[zhidayat]

it still cannot work. I tried

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/etc/init.d/net.ppp0 start

to whether the ppp0 has been started after reboot or not and I got

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* WARNING: net.ppp0 has already started, but is inactive

[Fitzcarraldo]

Trouble is, I don't use this dial-up stuff myself, so it's difficult to advise you. I do use a couple of broadband modems but with NetworkManager, so I don't have to mess around with pppoe-start and all that stuff.

Anyway, as I'm not an expert on pppoe, a different approach you could try would simply be to automate the entry of the command pppoe-start at start-up. You can do that by adding it to the file /etc/conf.d/local as follows:

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# Here is where you can put anything you need to start
# that there is not an init script for.

local_start() {
        # This is a good place to load any misc programs
        # on startup (use &>/dev/null to hide output)

        pppoe-start

        # We should always return 0
        return 0
}

local_stop() {
        # This is a good place to unload any misc.
        # programs you started above.

        # We should always return 0
        return 0
}

Give that a try to see if it does what you want.

[zhidayat]

It works
Thanks a alot Fitzcarraldo ...