On Sunday 10 Aug 2008 17:36, km wrote: > > route del default gw 192.168.whatever . > > route add defalut gw <ip of ppp0>
> > 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`.) No. route addition / deletion does not affect the interface file or the current ip. > > 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. usually in pppconfig there is an Advanced - Defaultroute option. you should enable defaultroute. Or simply edit /etc/ppp/peers/<your ppp config-name file> and add a the word defaultroute on a new line. One can of course do all sorts of things by adding appropriate scripts in /etc/ppp/ip-up.d/ and /etc/ppp/ip-down.d/ -- Rgds JTD -- http://mm.glug-bom.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxers
