[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Chris, why do you have a default route to your lan? as i have said:
your distro will have quite simple gui tools to say whether or not eth0 should set up a default route
your distro will have quite simple gui tools to say whether or not ppp should set up a default route
what do those tools say?
Yes, Mandrake has drakconnect, which is run from within Mandrake Control Center, or from console as root. That allows one to setup all network devices, and then select which is to be used as the default internet gateway. My issue with drakconnect is that when you click 'Finish' or 'Apply' to use the new settings it gracefully freezes, and does not respond to anything but a 'kill'. Then the settings for eth0 and the modem may be garbled, and the default route remains eth0, which of course only connects to my 'mini-net' (my laptop!).
I can currently only get internet via my modem by disabling LAN from the BIOS. I can enable the LAN, and not use drakconnect to configure it (it works with SMB anyway), but then eth0 will become the default gateway to the internet. Somehow drakconnect gets upset when I try to tell it to specify the modem to be the default net gateway...
-- Kind regards,
Chris Wilkinson, Christchurch, New Zealand.
