yes its been lingering in my mind as to why exactly there is a default
route set before the gateway to the outside world goes up?

On Thu, 23 Oct 2003 10:40:48 +1300
David Watson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> You can make this work by not setting a default route on the ethernet
> side. The route table for the local network will be OK. Then wvdial will
> set the correct default route when ppp0 is up.
> 
> Dave Watson
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Volker Kuhlmann [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 
> Sent: Wednesday, 22 October 2003 5:51 p.m.
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Re: Networking issue
> 
> > the option 'defaultroute' can be entered in the /etc/ppp/options
> > file to make all packets use ppp0 by default once the connection
> > is up.
> 
> Wrong. It won't work like you expect, it'll simply do nothing. (And I
> bet it's already in there.)
> 
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