I was hoping this thread would answer a question that's been puzzling me concerning defaultroute. Some months ago there was a question about PPP on this list and someone referred to "How to Hook Up PPP" by W. G. Unruh at http://axion.physics.ubc.ca/ppp-linux.html
This document helped me past a problem with defaultroute when I installed Woody this summer: *************************************************************** No Default Route Your computer passes messages for addresses it does not know to the default route. ppp assumes that there can only be one default route on any system. This is almost always the route to ISP's computer. However, if pppd finds that a default route already exists, it will not set up one to your ISP, causing problems (nothing gets through). In order that you not have any conflicts between the routing across ppp and onto some network you have, run /sbin/route -n (or you can also run /bin/netstat -nr which does the same thing) while not connected via ppp, and look for a default entry. (First entry in line is 0.0.0.0). This almost certainly should not be there. (Unless you already have a hookup to the internet via an ethernet connection, you do not want such a default route.) Unless you know that your computer has an ethernet connection to other computers already, the only thing there should be a route to 127.0.0.1 or 127.0.0.0 If there is such a default route (line starting with 0.0.0.0), and you want the ppp interface to be your default route, (the usual situation), run /sbin/route del default Also find out what was setting that wrong default route, and stop it from doing so. (If you cannot figure out what is doing so, put that line /sbin/route del default at the end of whichever of /etc/rc.local or /etc/rc.d/rc.local exists on your system.) ********************************************************** Before dialling out I always check for a default route (0.0.0.0) with "route -n" and find it quite often. So then I have to type "route del default" before "pon." Rather than automate the "route del default" command by putting it in rc.local, I'd like to know why it keeps coming back. Is it possible to prevent the default route from going back to 0.0.0.0? Thanks, Peter Christensen -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
