Hi!
On Thu, 24 Jan 2002, Eli Marmor wrote: > Hi, > > One of the parameters of pptp (i.e. of pppd) is "defaultroute". > However, when there is already an existing default gateway, it doesn't > have any effect. Not only the original gateway remains the default, but > moreover: the new one even isn't inserted into the routing table as an > entry. Interesting, I will check it > > Besides, even when running "route add default gateway" manually, it > doesn't OVERRIDE the original gateway, but only inserts a yet another > entry. Thats a normal behaviour. routes have metric. make your original default route have metric larger than 0 , and then the new default (with 0 metric) will come first. > > Of course, it is possible to "del" the original entry, "add" the new > one, and then re-"add" the original (so when the new fails, the > original will replace it automatically). But it's ugly, and has some > problems. > > In addition, since pppd is invoked in the background, it is impossible > to add a "route" command to the rc init script, but it must be done > after pppd succeeded to establish a connection with the ADSL (which > takes at least a few seconds). "route" also needs the exact IP number > of the default router in the case of ADSL, which usually isn't > permanent, and should be sed'ed/awk'ed/etc. from the output of > ifconfig. you could do some if-then clauses in the connect script that will handle the new route. > > So in any case, if the "defaultroute" parameter of "route add default > gateway" could work correctly, it could help. > > Anybody? Now, what is the real life problem this all has to solve anyway? > > > BTW: The Israeli start-up "Zend" sold a license for their PHP debugger > to Borland in close to $1M. Just read about it in TheMarker. > -- > Eli Marmor > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > CTO, Founder > Netmask (El-Mar) Internet Technologies Ltd. > __________________________________________________________ > Tel.: +972-9-766-1020 8 Yad-Harutzim St. > Fax.: +972-9-766-1314 P.O.B. 7004 > Mobile: +972-50-23-7338 Kfar-Saba 44641, Israel > > ================================================================= > To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with > the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command > echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Dani ================================================================= To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
