Re: Multiple Devices: both eth0 and ppp0 possible?

[Dan Williams <dcbw redhat com>]

On Mon, 2009-02-23 at 19:48 +0200, Rudolf Meijering wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I connect to the internet via a pppoe modem on my local network.
> Since I use different pppoe accounts its handy to use NM and not
> something like rp-pppoe.  The only problem is NM doesnt allow me to
> use both the local network (eth0) and the internet (ppp0) at the same
> time.  On the wiki though it says NM 0.7 supports multiple devices,
> how would I achieve being connected to eth0 and ppp0 at the same time
> using only NM then?  Is it possible?

It's not possible at the moment, but it's definitely a bug in NM and
something we're going to fix.  PPPoE is actually more like a VPN than it
is a low-level connection method, which isn't something that we realized
at the time we added PPPoE support.

Dan