On Sun, Apr 02, 2000 at 12:43:28AM +0200, J�rn Nettingsmeier wrote:
> hello everybody !
>
> i have just subscribed to this list, sorry if this has been
> discussed before.
> i was unable to find a faq or archive, so here goes my problem:
>
> my setup consists of a server running 2.2.14 with diald 0.99.1
> (precompiled from the suse 6.2 distro).
> it connects two other boxes to the internet via a dialup ppp line
> and has masquerading and routing.
> now i need a default route to the isp's gateway. i can't put it in
> route.conf, because it will not work when the host is unreachable,
> which it is most of the time. so i have to create one on-the-fly
> when diald connects.
> diald does set a route to the remote host upon connection, but it's
> not the default, and the other boxes don't know where to send their
> stuff...
> my isp's gateway always has the same address, but that doesn't help,
> because i can't set this as default gateway on the other boxes
> either when the link is not up...
>
> am i overlooking something stupid ?
> (i have noticed the addroute option, but i couldn't get it to work;
> anyway, it seemed this option adds a route on starting diald, which
> is not what i need.)
Did you try the defaultroute option to diald?
Tim
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