[Pkg-utopia-maintainers] Bug#527637: network-manager disconnects a pppoe connection activated via /etc/networking and pppoeconf

[Felix H. Dahlke]

Package: network-manager
Version: 0.6.6-3
Severity: normal


I have set up a pppoe connection to my ISP using pppoeconf on a machine
directly connected to the DSL modem.

The connection is established properly during the boot process, but only lasts
for a couple of seconds: As soon as network-manager has established his own
connection, I am (according to my ISP) still connected, but cannot actually
reach any server, neither by it's FQDN, nor via it's IP.

When network-manager has established his connection, it says:
"Wired network connection with a self-assigned address"

According to /sbin/ifconfig, the devices ppp0 and eth0 are still up and
assigned with the correct IPs.

I worked around the issue by rigorously deactivating network-manager:
# update-rc.d -f network-manager remove

Despite this probably being a bug, I am welcome to suggestions or pointers
(via e-mail) to documentation on how to "properly" set up a pppoe connection
with lenny and perhaps network-manager.
pppoeconf is basically the only way I know of.

-- System Information:
Debian Release: 5.0.1
  APT prefers stable
  APT policy: (500, 'stable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.26-2-686 (SMP w/1 CPU core)
Locale: LANG=de_DE.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=de_DE.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash

Versions of packages network-manager depends on:
ii  adduser                  3.110           add and remove users and groups
ii  dbus                     1.2.1-5         simple interprocess messaging syst
ii  dhcdbd                   3.0-5           D-Bus interface to the ISC DHCP cl
ii  hal                      0.5.11-8        Hardware Abstraction Layer
ii  ifupdown                 0.6.8+nmu1      high level tools to configure netw
ii  iproute                  20080725-2      networking and traffic control too
ii  libc6                    2.7-18          GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii  libdbus-1-3              1.2.1-5         simple interprocess messaging syst
ii  libdbus-glib-1-2         0.76-1          simple interprocess messaging syst
ii  libgcrypt11              1.4.1-1         LGPL Crypto library - runtime libr
ii  libglib2.0-0             2.16.6-1+lenny1 The GLib library of C routines
ii  libgpg-error0            1.4-2           library for common error values an
ii  libhal1                  0.5.11-8        Hardware Abstraction Layer - share
ii  libiw29                  29-1.1          Wireless tools - library
ii  libnl1                   1.1-2           library for dealing with netlink s
ii  libnm-util0              0.6.6-3         network management framework (shar
ii  lsb-base                 3.2-20          Linux Standard Base 3.2 init scrip
ii  wpasupplicant            0.6.4-3         Client support for WPA and WPA2 (I

Versions of packages network-manager recommends:
ii  network-manager-gnome         0.6.6-4    network management framework (GNOM

network-manager suggests no packages.

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