In article <OE50jcxtniFKULPEhGD000090dd@hotmail.com>,
	"Amit Kulkarni" <amitkulz@hotmail.com> writes:
> Problem : how to make sure that the broadcast interface on my computer is
> configured and up before running 'adsl-start'
>  which tries to connect to the internet via pppd?

The "rp-pppoe" package from the package collection as startup script
"etc/rc.d/pppoe" which handles this for you.

	Kind regards

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