Changing interface names in pppd, where is the ifname option?

[Derek Broughton]

H.S. wrote:

> Josef Wolf wrote:
>> 
>> I have multiple ADSL lines running ppp.  This works fine except of
>> one problem:  The interface names keep changing.  Sometimes the first
>> line is on ppp0, sometimes it is on ppp1, sometimes on ppp2, and so
>> on.  The same happens for the second line too.
>> 
>> I see that pppd in other distros has the "ifname" option to assign
>> a stable interface name for a given peer.  This option seems not to
>> exist in ubuntu's pppd.

It shouldn't be needed, because interface naming is handled by udev.  But
it's so long since I had a ppp interface, I couldn't tell you if it's
handled _right_ :-(
-- 
derek