Jonathan Cromwell wrote:
Ooops - my company ppp seems to work ok without the the two 'route'
commands. I must have changed something else at the same time. So at this
point, my ppp connection seems to be fully functional without providing the
supplied gateway IP address anywhere. go figure.
Thanks - Jon
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> 2) Gateways. My corporate network supplied me with a fixed gateway IP
> address in addition to the normal PPP setup info. Part of my problem is
> that i'm not sure just what purpose this gateway serves. linuxconf
> doesn't explicitely associate it with a PPP connection and the PPP Howto
> and FAQ don't seem to clearly address it (or if they do, I'm just dumb
> ;-). By poking around some documentation and a little hacking (I don't
> know the first thing about IP routing) I was able to see my corporate
> network after issuing the following commands:
>
> route add -net 9.25.20.1 netmask 255.255.255.255 dev ppp0
> route add default gw 9.25.20.1
>
> where 9.25.20.1 is my gateway IP address. I'm not sure exactly what I've
> done here and I really don't want to have to issue these commands
> everytime I bring up my corporate ppp connection. Does someone know the
> correct way to deal with this?
>
> Thanks in advance - Jon
>
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