Fwd: Re: Verizon Cellular service and NetworkManager shared networking

[Andy Graybeal <andy graybeal casanueva com>]

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Subject: Re: Verizon Cellular service and NetworkManager shared networking
Date: Tue, 11 Jan 2011 15:59:57 -0500
From: Andy Graybeal <andy graybeal casanueva com>
To: Dan Williams <dcbw redhat com>

> One thing you can do, for the time being, is make a 'dispatcher' script
> that does this.  It's a small script that gets called whenever things
> happen with the network, and in your case that's a great place to put
> this.  The script gets called with the interface name that came up or
> down, so you can just pop this command into a small script
> in /etc/NetworkManager/dispatcher.d, and match against the interface
> name starting with "ppp".  Note you'll want the IP_IFACE environment
> variable from the script, not the actual interface name passed as a
> command-line parameter to the script as $1.  Note that it won't *always*
> be ppp0.  There's various information out there on creating dispatcher
> scripts, and there may even be some already installed on your system.
>
> Dan

Dan, thank you for the response.  I'll be reading more about what you
wrote and trying this out.  I'll respond with how it works out.

Thanks again, I had kinda given up on this and installed MS Windows
shamefully.

-Andy