... ciao: : on "9-24-2013" "Murat Sezgin" writ: : Why the pppoe_connect() is called in this tear down process? 'not' having read all the "source", i'm thinking "pppoe_connect()" points to "/usr/sbin/pppoe-connect" (on this system). where, near the bottom, this snippet found. "if test "$RETRY_ON_FAILURE" = "no" ; then exit fi" if memory serves, the 'pppoe' stuff likes to talk to itself ... -- ... it's not what you see , but in stead , notice ... -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-ppp" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html