At 19:31 Uhr +0200 18.6.2002, Bernd Sieker wrote:
>There is no IP traffic on the Ethernet interface, so it should not
>have an IP address, although it probably doesn't hurt if it has, but
>it may be confusing.
>
>I'm not sure about in-kernel pppoe, but for the userland daemon the
>Ethernet interface must be "up" for the pppoe to find it, so the
>ifconfig.ae0 file should be there and just contain the word "up".

For both mouse-pppoe and rp-pppoe I did not need an ifconfig.ae? file.
Apparently the daemons up the used interface themselves.

	hauke


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