#include <hallo.h> Christopher S. Swingley wrote on Fri Jul 27, 2001 um 07:40:12PM:
> I have a laptop with an ethernet card connection to a local network
> and a modem for connecting to the Internet. Earlier versions of pppd
> always reset the default gateway to the dial-in server when I connected
> (and reset it back to eth0 after I hang up). A recent upgrade seems
> to have broken this:
>
> Jul 27 19:19:14 machine pppd[15272]: not replacing existing default
> route to eth0 [192.168.97.1]
Well, hypotheticaly it is your fault, and a possible solution may be a
line in /usr/bin/pon that deletes default route before dialing, and
another line in poff that does ifdown eth0;ifup eth0.
Since I was bothered by the same problem, I wrote a small hack for pppd
which kills the previous default route before pppd sets a new one. This
is should become default in Debian, IMHO. If the user chooses the
defaultroute option, he/she WANTS the route to be replaced, and it
confuses when pppd does not do this only after logging in, not warning
you before.
To Michael: would you like to accept the patch, or should I discuss it with
upstream?
Gruss/Regards,
Eduard.
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