On 7/2/08, jtd <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wednesday 02 Jul 2008 19:25, Rony Bill wrote: > > On Wed, Jul 2, 2008 at 4:19 PM, Arun Khan <> wrote: > > > Anyway, given that you have 2 NICs and now a Indicom connection > > > (3 'net connections), you basically have a "def. route" routing > > > problem. > > > > I second that. In our excitement to get things working we forget > > about the existing eth0 that's the default route. > > > > KM, simply run 'sudo route add default ppp0' after your usb modem's > > ppp0 is up. Once this is confirmed to be the solution, remove or > > comment the default gateway entry for eth0 in > > /etc/network/interfaces and reboot your machine. > > > > Yes reboot, not restart networking services. > > > route del default gw 192.168.whatever . > route add defalut gw <ip of ppp0> > > -- > Rgds > > JTD >
Many thanks. I think this is what got me going. However, I am sure I did something wrong with the commands initially and got it all screwed up. :P AFAIR, after doing a # route del default gw I did not find the /etc/network/interfaces file in place; it just disappeared! (is this expected? could not understand that from the man page on route`.) However, I had a backup copy (incidentally a much older, cleaner backup :P ) of the interfaces file that i restored. And things seemed workable henceforth. Although, this seems to be a pretty dirty way of getting around a problem and i am still foxed as to what was a proper systematic approach to solve it. I am reading up on this, and will surely catch up pretty soon. Apologies for late response. Reasons include trying to figure out things the D-I-Y way, though i wonder how much that worked :P, and of course, work-loads a wee-bit heavier than i could handle. :) Many thanks again to all who helped. :) -- Regards km -- http://mm.glug-bom.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxers
