> after connecting to my isp i get the following report from ifconfig > lo Link encap:Local Loopback > inet addr:127.0.0.1 Mask:255.0.0.0 > UP LOOPBACK RUNNING MTU:3924 Metric:1 > RX packets:6 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0 > TX packets:6 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0 > collisions:0 txqueuelen:0 > > ppp0 Link encap:Point-to-Point Protocol > inet addr:192.168.99.1 P-t-P:192.168.99.99 > Mask:255.255.255.255 > UP POINTOPOINT RUNNING NOARP MULTICAST DYNAMIC MTU:1500 > Metric:1 > RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0 > TX packets:1 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0 > collisions:0 txqueuelen:10 > > ppp1 Link encap:Point-to-Point Protocol > inet addr:203.197.179.53 P-t-P:202.54.84.68 > Mask:255.255.255.255 > UP POINTOPOINT RUNNING NOARP MULTICAST MTU:1514 Metric:1 > RX packets:12 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0 > TX packets:12 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0 > collisions:0 txqueuelen:10 > then i get the message that cannot replace default route > > > > my pc running suse 6.3 is not networked in any way and i am puzzled as > to what ifconfig tells about ppp0.normally i would have expected the > information on ppp1 to appear for ppp0.and only one ppp connection > should be shown seeing that i have only one modem. > i had a similar problem long time ago and i got around in the this way whats happening is ppp0 does not terminate for some odd reason when you disconect and next time you use wvdial it sees ppp0 busy and wrights to ppp1 etc, at one point i had up to ppp15 also wvdial was changing yhe permissions of my /dev/ttyS1 so i wronte this script that does the trick hope it helps you also have to bring down ppp0 completely see the script -- Rolando Roman SuSe 6.4 Linux virtuoso 2.2.16 #1 Sun Jul 9 17:51:02 GMT 2000 i586 unknown
kill -9 `cat /var/run/ppp0.pid` #kill -9 `cat /var/lock/LCK..ttyS1` rm -f /var/lock/LCK..ttyS1 ifconfig ppp0 down chmod 777 /dev/ttyS1 rm -f /var/run/ppp0.pid
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