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

[Felix H. Dahlke]

Sorry for the late reply, I am not able to access this box often.

Here are the contents of my /etc/network/interfaces, I did a plain  
debian installation and used pppoeconf after that, without manually  
altering any network related file.

/etc/network/interfaces:
---
# This file describes the network interfaces available on your system
# and how to activate them. For more information, see interfaces(5).

# The loopback network interface
auto lo
iface lo inet loopback

# The primary network interface
allow-hotplug eth0
iface eth0 inet dhcp

auto dsl-provider
iface dsl-provider inet ppp
pre-up /sbin/ifconfig eth0 up # line maintained by pppoeconf
provider dsl-provider

On Fri, 2009-05-08 at 22:49 +0200, Michael Biebl wrote:
> Felix H. Dahlke wrote:
> > 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.
> 
> Can you show me your /etc/network/interface. Have you configured your eth0
> device this way?
> 
> Cheers,
> Michael
>