> The new version can't/won't set the defaultroute to pppd
> automatically as the previous ones did so I simply disabled the defaultroute to
> eth0 and it now works like a charm...
Is eth0 connected to anything that ultimately gets you to the internet?
If not then maybe you shouldn't have a default route through it. Instead
set up one or more network routes to the specific networks which you
can reach through eth0. Here's an example:
I have a eth0 who's IP address is 16.140.32.161/24. For sake of argument
there's no way for this to get to the internet. But on this net (16.140.32)
there's a router at address 16.140.32.1 and it can reach two other networks:
16.140.64, and 16.140.0. So instead of a default route to 16.140.32.1
I set up network routes for 16.140.32.0 and 16.140.64.0 that point to
16.140.32.1 as the gateway.
If the router at 16.140.32.1 happens to also broadcast RIP then instead of
setting up routes manually I can run "routed -q" and my box will automatically
learn the routes to the other networks. Something like this is a better
solution if the router on your network is ultimately attached to a number
of other internal networks but not to the internet at large. This probably
won't be the case at home (8-) ) but I don't recall that you mentioned
where the machine is located.
When you crank up ppp and it installs a default route, you should still
be able to reach machines on your internal network via one of the available
network routes (when IP searches for a route to a given host it may find
more than one matching route. So it picks the most specific one, and
a network route is more specific than the default route.)
ppp has no business overriding an existing default route. If it did this
in the past I'd consider it a bug.
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-- Farrell
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