Marc Thomas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> And the defaultroute makes pppd add & remove the default route when the
> link goes up and down (it took me ages to find this!)
That's right.
> The interesting thing is that if I ping an IP address which I know is not
> local when the PPP link is down, the Linux box says:
> ping: sendto: Network is unreachable
The PPP link is down. The default route is removed because of your
'defaultroute' option. Thus, when the link is down, there is no route
by which the packet can reach its destination. Thus, the network is
unreachable, and Linux tells you so. Where is the problem?
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