Hello
(please use a shorter subject nex time)
Ken Januski (<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>) wrote:
> Can anyone give me any clues as to why I need to run "ifconfig xxx
> down" in order to use pon and modem? I haven't had a network until
> recently but now that I do it would be nice to not need to turn the
> network off in order to use my dialup connection.
This probably is a routing problem. Did you set a gateway for your
network connection? Maybe it is set to be the default gateway, so even
after bringing up the ppp interface, your systme tries to use the
gateway for your local network to access other hosts. What does
/sbin/route -n
say?
best regards
Andreas Janssen
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