[4832] in RedHat Linux List
Re: All clear! Pppd from hell is slain.
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Lance Cummings)
Sun Nov 17 18:32:53 1996
From: "Lance Cummings" <lance@iac.co.jp>
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Date: Mon, 18 Nov 1996 08:26:32 +0900
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On Sun, 17 Nov 1996 12:26:10 -0500 (EST)
tfreeman <tfreeman@vnet.net> wrote:
>
>On Sun, 17 Nov 1996, Lance Cummings wrote:
>
>> Sheesh what an unnerving experience. But blowing
>> away the ppp interface I had created did it -- after a reboot.
>>
>> Now for the questions:
>>
>> 1) Obviously I don't want my interface active at boot, right?
>> I mean that *is* how this all got started, right? But do I want it
>> active at all? What exactly does "active" vs. "inactive" mean?
>> Does it have to be "active" to use it at all? I'm afraid I don't
>> understand this very well.
>I think (and will be corrected quickly if wrong) that an "active" ppp
>link in this case is a link which is up and running. "Inactive" means
>configured, and available to be activated. In this case, I _think_
>that there is a button on a configuration screen/window which asks
>"Do you want to activate on boot". Don't select the button.
I found it, and it was selected. I turned it off. It was the
default. Yikes!
>I wish I could be more specific about where that screen is, but I had
>to change entirely over to a command line/script based solution. I
>use scripts derived from those found in
>/usr/doc/ppp-2.2.0f-2/scripts. If you elect to use these scripts,
>check that each file is referenced by the fully quallified name, as I
>had path difficulties.
Tom, I came over here to use a command-line interface. But Colgate
seems like it's trying to out-Window Windows. I pull up a file, say,
/etc/fstab in an editor, and there's a big warning at the top that
the file should only be edited using the GUI tool. I wonder which
OS I'm in sometimes. :-0
Anyway, thanks for the advice about "active" and "inactive". I
needed to understand that before I go back in and try to set this
sucker up again.
Best,
Lance
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