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Hi All-

I recently went from RH5.2 to 6.1, the latter with essentially all
updates.

I have a laptop which is occasionally connected to the net via ether,
and occasionally through ppp.

A few network problems present themselves:

I have my eth0 interface set to NOT come up at boot time, for use away
from the ethernet port.

For some reason, under 6.1 it comes up anyway! This isn't happening in
the normal course of things -- there's no boot message about bringing it
up, but it comes up anyway!!!

Anyone know what's going on?

Also, I have the same kppp problems that everyone does (ie,
requiring it going through root). I assume this is a setup issue -- need
to make the "modem" group or something -- but it should be made more
transparent.

Thanks,

Andrew

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Andrew Jaffe___________________________________________________________

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Andrew
for the Kppp problem take a look at my homepage
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Patricia

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Red Hat Linux release 6.0 (Hedwig)
Kernel 2.2.5-15
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Fri Dec 17 02:47:17 CET 1999

Quote:>Hi All-

>I recently went from RH5.2 to 6.1, the latter with essentially all
>updates.

>I have a laptop which is occasionally connected to the net via ether,
>and occasionally through ppp.

>A few network problems present themselves:

>I have my eth0 interface set to NOT come up at boot time, for use away
>from the ethernet port.

>For some reason, under 6.1 it comes up anyway! This isn't happening in
>the normal course of things -- there's no boot message about bringing it
>up, but it comes up anyway!!!

>Anyone know what's going on?

>Also, I have the same kppp problems that everyone does (ie,
>requiring it going through root). I assume this is a setup issue -- need
>to make the "modem" group or something -- but it should be made more
>transparent.

>Thanks,

>Andrew

For eth0 coming up automatically, have you disable PCMCIA service during bootup
time? The PCMCIA initscript will bring up your network. The easiest if you want
to have both local net and ppp is by disabling default route and adding a route
to your network using -net or -host (w/o using gateway).

For the kppp, it's PAM thing. Change your /etc/pam.d/kppp to use pam_permit.so
instead of pam_rootok.so.

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Is this a new "feature"? Under 5.x, eth0 didn't automatically come up
when PCMCIA is activated!

Ideas?

A

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Andrew Jaffe___________________________________________________________

University of California, 301 LeConte Hall               (510) 642-7570
Berkeley, CA 94720                                        FAX    2-1756