Soumyadip Modak wrote:
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> Yeah I'm gonna use wvdial. Coz I just tried that, and it connects.
> Only problem. Now I've to add the default route, which has not been
> set. So mozilla, etc. can't see the net. Can someone tell me the
> command for adding default route plz. man defroute didn't work
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> Soumyadip Modak
Wvdial, after establishing a connection with the remote host, finally
runs pppd. It is pppd which configures the ppp0 network interface and
sets up the routing table appropriately. To do this, pppd must be setuid
root. On my machine, ls -l /usr/bin/pppd show this:
204 -rwsr-xr-x 1 root root 203968 Feb 28 2002 /usr/sbin/pppd
The 's' in the permissions field shows that pppd is setuid owner (in
this case root). If your pppd shows 'rwx' then you have to do:
chmod u+x /usr/sbin/pppd
as root.
By the way, pppd (and perhaps also wvdial) writes logging messages to
/var/log/messages. Read the manual.
- Manas Laha
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