On Sun, 20 Apr 2003, [ISO-8859-15] Peter Karl Müller wrote:
Hi I'm using SuSE 7.3 as a firewall accessing the IN via DSL. By chance I found in the archived /var/message files of the last months that pppd sporadically connects thru ppp1 instead of ppp0:
messages:Apr 13 12:11:37 xxxxxx pppd[6215]: Using interface ppp1 messages:Apr 13 12:11:37 xxxxxx pppd[6215]: Connect: ppp1 <--> /dev/pts/1 messages:Jan 18 15:51:36 xxxxxx pppd[2511]: Using interface ppp1 messages:Jan 18 15:51:36 xxxxxx pppd[2511]: Connect: ppp1 <--> /dev/pts/2
Since my firewall rules are bound to ppp0 my firewall box has been unshielded, right?
As a workaround I have blocked all traffic thru ppp1, ppp2, ppp3.
Questions:
a) How do I ensure that pppd only takes ppp0?
That's not possible at the moment. The pppd has the (undocumented) option "unit n" to use the interface unit n but if that one is already used it just takes another one.
b) Do ppp2, ppp3 etc. exist?
If several pppd daemon are running for sure. ciao Arvin -- Dipl.-Phys. Arvin Schnell Research & Development email: arvin@suse.de