adsl-connection

New Distributions offer adsl-setup for configuration. You should really use it. With adsl-start and adsl-stop you manage the connection. The following skript is only for old Distries and is not usefull anymore.

This script comes from www.adsl4linux.de

#! /bin/sh

# adslconnect

# Sript for connection

#

#

DEVICE="eth0"

PPPD="/usr/sbin/pppd"

PPPOE="usr/sbin/pppoe"

SUDO="/usr/bin/sudo"

if test -x $SUDO; then

if test $UID -ne 0; then

exec $SUDO $0 $*

fi

fi

case "$1" in

stop)

echo Verbindung will be killed .........

killall pppd

;;

start)

echo establish connection ...........

$PPPD pty "$PPPOE -I $DEVICE -m 1452"

;;

*)

echo wrong or missing parameter

echo usage: $0 [start] [stop]

;;

esac

Save file as /usr/local/bin/connectadsl

Make executable :

For automatic execution of the script at startup add following line in /etc/rc.d/rc.local :

To allow everyone to stop or start the connection, you need to use sudo. Configure it with :

visudo

anwender-name ALL=(ALL) NOPASSWD:/usr/local/bin/connectadsl

einfügen. Und fertig.