On Thu, 8 Apr 1999, Jeffrey T. West wrote:
|I'm trying to automate reestablishing my default route as soon as my PPP
|session ends. I'm on a LAN with two segments separated by a router and
|occasionally use my Linux workstation to connect to the Internet via
|dial-up PPP.
|
|Through my readings and experimentation, the default route must point to
|PPPx in order for PPP to work. So I've configured my workstation to loose
|it's default route to the router and add a static route to the router just
|before PPP starts.
|
|And I've successfully configured my workstation to simultaneously connect
|to the LAN and the Internet via PPP while being able to resolve both local
|and Internet names AND maintain routes to the LAN. (And I don't mind
|expressing the joy I feel after having spent 6 days to accomplish this sole
|task - thank you very much!)
|
|So, once pppd has stopped running, I'd like my workstation to automagically
|reestablish the default route it had before PPP started.
Don't remove the LAN default route and put
/sbin/route add default ppp0
in /etc/ppp/ip-up. This makes ppp0 the default route for the duration of
the connection and the LAN default route will reassert itself when the ppp
interface is torn down at the end of the ppp session.
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Clifford Kite Not a guru. (tm)
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