I've previously been happily using my Diva Server BRI card to remain permanently connected to the Internet via a Tiscali Anytime account and a keep-alive script which redials after the line drops out every two hours. The connection was via serial interface ippp0 under SuSE 8.

After a restart I found I had no connection, and tracked it down to Linux thinking that it should be dialling up over the ethernet interface eth0. To keep things short, my position now is that even if I delete the configuration for the ISDN card, the interface, and the provider (everything behaves itself during set-up), if I set up a new ippp0 I still end up looking at a configuration that wants to dial up over eth0.

I've tried uninstalling and re-installing ippp. Any ideas, anyone?