Re: Preventing default route being wrongly attached

2004-04-05 Thread robert fernando
Hi fellow users, Q1 If diaable diald will I be able to accept incoming dialup connections to my pc/modem. Which package would be used insead to enable this functionality. Q2 How to I prevent diald being activated on my pc bootling linux. thanks Robert Fernando John Hasler wrote: robert fernand

Re: Preventing default route being wrongly attached

2004-04-05 Thread John Hasler
robert fernando writes: > Do I need to get diald and pppd working together if I want to support > dial in connections and ppp out to my isp. You don't need diald at all. Pppd supports demand dialing. Run pppconfig, go to 'Advanced', and select 'Demand'. -- John Hasler [EMAIL PROTECTED] (John Has

Re: Preventing default route being wrongly attached

2004-04-05 Thread robert fernando
Hi all, Further investigations into this problem, suggest thast it is a conflict between diald and pppd. Do I need to get diald and pppd working together if I want to support dial in connections and ppp out to my isp. I use the pon script to start a connection to my isp and poff to disconnect th

Re: Preventing default route being wrongly attached

2004-04-03 Thread Bill Marcum
On Fri, Apr 02, 2004 at 02:35:19AM +0100, robert fernando wrote: > Hi all, > Q1 How do I reconfigure a Debian 3.x system 2.2.20-idepci so that the > default route is not tied to the sl0 / slip device. > eth0 is setup to be connected to a 3c509 ethernert card. > > Why do I need to do this. > It ap

Re: Preventing default route being wrongly attached

2004-04-02 Thread Andreas Janssen
Hello robert fernando (<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>) wrote: > Andreas Janssen (<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>) wrote: >> robert fernando (<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>) wrote: >> >>>Q1 How do I reconfigure a Debian 3.x system 2.2.20-idepci so that >>>the default route is not tied to the sl0 / slip device. >>>eth0 is setup to b

Re: Preventing default route being wrongly attached

2004-04-02 Thread robert fernando
Hi fellow mailling list users, Which entry do I need to remove from /etc/network/interfaces ? my file version looks like this # /etc/network/interfaces -- configuration file for ifup(8), ifdown(8) # The loopback interface auto lo iface lo inet loopback # The first network card - this entry was

Re: Preventing default route being wrongly attached

2004-04-02 Thread Andreas Janssen
Hello robert fernando (<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>) wrote: > Q1 How do I reconfigure a Debian 3.x system 2.2.20-idepci so that the > default route is not tied to the sl0 / slip device. > eth0 is setup to be connected to a 3c509 ethernert card. > > Why do I need to do this. > It appears that having sl0 a