On 24 Nov 1998 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > You don't want to divert net traffic to the ppp connection. You just want > to make it the route to your office. Put a script in /etc/ppp/ip-up.d to > add a route to your office network via the ppp interface and another in > /etc/ppp/ip-down.d to delete it. When up, ppp links can be treated just > like ethernet links, except they are named pppX instead of ethX, they > always have exactly two hosts on them, and you don't need to ifconfig them > (pppd does that).
Thanks for your help. However, I am having difficulty getting the ppp connection to work properly due to my ethernet connection being the "default route". I really don't know much about the details of routing tables and interface configuration. I can get everything working fine by hand (automation seems simple enough) if and only if I "route del default" beforehand to remove (what I understand to be) the existing gateway. If I don't do this, I can only ping the ppp server and nothing beyond this. To me this implies that I can't lookup other ip addresses past the ppp server as there is no gateway to pass through to get there (or something like that). What I ultimately would like to do is to be able to do rlogins through this ppp connection but have all other network connections still using my ethernet connection. I guess I don't completely understand what you mean by "Put a script in /etc/ppp/ip-up.d to add a route to your office network via the ppp interface"? Could you point me to documentation that I can use to figure this out? Any help is really appreciated. Cheers, Colin. -- Colin Telmer, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <http://www.telmer.com>
