Re: ppp rcvar

[Patrick Welche <prlw1%cam.ac.uk@localhost>]

On Tue, Aug 21, 2012 at 10:36:56AM -0500, Jeremy C. Reed wrote:
> On Tue, 21 Aug 2012, Patrick Welche wrote:
> 
> > Is the lack of rcvar in rc.d/ppp intentional or an oversight?
> > 
> > (Now I'm not sure if I had put ppp=NO or pppd=NO in rc.conf, and was then
> > surprised that the phone was engaged hours after booting)
> 
> 
> http://mail-index.netbsd.org/tech-misc/2008/02/23/msg000005.html
> 
> Some of the thread answers why it happened.

It seems that ppp isn't considered in the thread. I would expect ppp=YES to
mean at boot run ppp and connect to $ppp_peers | /etc/ppp/peers. If ppp=NO
then wait for a /etc/rc.d/ppp onestart.

Thoughts?

Cheers,

Patrick