Autostart mobile broadband with pon/pppd

[Pybash]

Hello,

I have created a mobile broadband connection with pppd,
which works fine if I start it with

sudo pon t-mobile

Now, I want it to start automatically, on boot or when I plug in the broadband modem.

So I created a:

/etc/rc.local

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pon t-mobile

and a:

/etc/network/interfaces

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allow-hotplug ppp0
auto ppp0
iface ppp0 inet ppp
	provider t-mobile

which both fail,
how can I connect automatically?

Regards Pb

[debiman]

i don't think you need to edit /etc/network/interfaces, if it already worked before that, no?

so, maybe the addition to rc.local is enough?

but, since debian is using systemd nowadays, you might want to create a service instead:
https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Sy ... unit_files

also, in both cases, you might need to use '/usr/bin/pon' (or whatever the actual location of pon is, find out with 'which pon') instead of just 'pon'.

[Bouwser]

I just went through this. Does your syslog show any ppp errors? This will give you clues.

I only used interfaces and did not use rc.local.
I did not have allow-hotplug in my interfaces file.

The issue I found with my setup was that I had one of my ethernet dhcp connections set to auto. (auto enp2s0). If I did not have an ethernet cable plugged into that ethernet port the network startup would crash and it would never reach the ppp setup.

Hope this helps,
Brent