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How can i allow ppp daemon bring up eth0 first before connection ? If the ethernet port is down , no connection would be success. So i'm putting this into /etc/ppp/peers/dsl , but eth0 won't be brought up through 'pon dsl' command:

plugin rp-pppoe.so
eth0
defaultroute
usepeerdns
user "blabla"
noauth
noipdefault
hide-password
debug

And from kernel message buffer:

error sending pppoe packet: Network is down

P.S: And please don't tell me to bring up eth0 at boot time ;-P , it's already set

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pppd itself cannot bring up eth0. You generally would accomplish this with a post-up type script, but that depends on which distribution you're using. Can you update your question by telling us which Linux distro you have? – Flimzy Aug 18 '11 at 5:09
Sure , i wanted it on both Gentoo Linux and Arch Linux – user73361 Aug 18 '11 at 13:12
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make a script that will ping and if the result is zero then it should issue the command: /etc/init.d/net.eth0 start ifconfig eth0 up then connect ppp by pon $tunnel there should be appropriate wait times between command other wise it might not work.

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