Re: [gentoo-user] what to use for a pppoe client?

[Mick]

On Thursday 09 Apr 2015 12:05:38 Heiko Baums wrote:
> Am 05.04.2015 um 17:29 schrieb lee:
> > So there isn't really a choice and rp-pppoe is some kind of additional
> > thing?
>
> As far as I remember yes.
>
> > What are its advantages?
>
> Like I said before, easier to configure and to handle.
>
> > Networkmanager sucks, it overwrites /etc/resolv.conf and does all kinds
> > of weird things.
>
> If you need or want to use fixed DNS servers you can set them in the
> IPv4 and/or IPv6 settings of each connection, and Networkmanager puts
> those into /etc/resolv.conf.
>
> I haven't seen Networkmanager doing weird things yet, and I'm using it
> quite a while for several connection types like simple ethernet, WLAN
> and mobile broadband.
>
> >  Maybe it's useful when you need to switch between
> >
> > connections all the time; that's not what I'm doing.  I'm not using kde
> > or gnome, either.
>
> It's also useful if you want to automatically reconnect when the
> connection got lost as soon as a reconnect is possible again. Neither
> ppp nor rp-pppoe can do that.

Are you sure?

Have you tried 'passive' and 'maxfail 0' settings?

If these don't work, then a separate script (e.g. pinging google or some such 
server as a test) can be used to decide to restart ppp.


> nm-applett also works with Xfce or LXDE if you're using those.
> Networkmanager itself contains several tools for the text console like
> nmcli and nmtui.
>
> And if you need to run a script every time the internet connection is
> established or closed just put it into /etc/NetworkManager/dispatcher.d.
> Parameter $1 gives the network device and $2 is either up or down.

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Regards,
Mick