Yes, it can be done.
Use the
nodefaultroute
option in your
/etc/ppp/options
file.
This will disable the defaultroute option.
At the other end, your customer shuld use the
defaultroute
option, of course....
Also, it will be best if you will use pppd 2.3.7+
Have a nice day!
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Horia Chirculescu [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Wed, 9 Jun 1999, Bert Klauninger wrote:
> Hello!
>
> We have a Linux box running which is directly connected to our Internet
> Router. It also has got some modems attached. We had the idea of using one
> of the modems for remote system administration for a customer (also on
> Linux).
>
> And here is my question: Is it possible to keep the default gateway route on
> "eth0" (gateway to the Internet) while dialing up a PPP connection to our
> customer's computer using pppd so that I can send/receive packets to/from
> him? What entry in my routing table does it require or is it sufficient to
> just start pppd with a chat skript?
>
> Here is the routing table:
>
> Destination Gateway Genmask Flags Metric Ref Use
> Iface
> mail.epicom.at * 255.255.255.255 UH 0 0 0
> dummy0
> gate.epicom.at * 255.255.255.255 UH 0 0 46 eth0
> 195.58.162.120 * 255.255.255.248 U 0 0 4
> dummy0
> 192.168.1.0 * 255.255.255.0 U 0 0 289 eth1
> loopback * 255.0.0.0 U 0 0 157 lo
> default gate.epicom.at 0.0.0.0 UG 0 0 3362 eth0
>
> Thank you very much,
>
> Bert Klauninger
>
>
>
>
>
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