On Fri, 25 Jan 2002, Howard Lowndes wrote: HL> I have a site which is dual homed (ADSL and PSTN) HL> HL> I am trying to script /etc/ppp/ip-down.local so that when the ADSL HL> connection goes down (the rp-pppoe script for bringing it up has the HL> defaultroute option) I want the default route to toggle over to the PSTN. HL> HL> By running debug code in the ip-down.local script I can see the toggling HL> happening, but at the end of the day the (new) default route has HL> disappeared again. HL> HL> Could it be that because this connection that is going down has the HL> defaultroute associated with it, it takes down any defaultroute that it HL> finds as its last act of defiance? It ceratinly appears that way HL>
Just set the default route to the PSTN link and use /sbin/route add -net 0/0 $1 in your ip-up script refering to the ADSL link. The route will disappear by itself when the ADSL link goes down... Marek -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
