-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Friday 19 December 2003 11:29 pm, Charles McLaughlin cmclaughlin-at-ucdavis.edu |lugod| wrote: > Hello, > > I'm having problems using my dial up modem and ethernet at the same time. > This is a real bummer because I'm trying to set up a router/firewall, but I > think I need to work this out first! ;-) > > I've found that I need to remove an iptable routing entry for the ethernet > card in order to be able to use the modem. And it is imperative that I > remove that iptable entry before I dial up.
That's the routing table, not iptables > Here is what I've done to get it to work: > > -------------- > > The default: > > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ route -n > Kernel IP routing table > Destination Gateway Genmask Flags Metric Ref Use > Iface > 192.168.0.0 0.0.0.0 255.255.255.0 U 0 0 0 > eth0 0.0.0.0 192.168.0.1 0.0.0.0 UG 0 0 > 0 eth0 > > > I have to run the following **before** I dialup or else I won't be able to > ping anything: > > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ route del default gw 192.168.0.1 > > > Then I can dial up and connect: > > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ pon # dials the modem, etc > > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ route -n > Kernel IP routing table > Destination Gateway Genmask Flags Metric Ref Use > Iface > 169.237.17.97 0.0.0.0 255.255.255.255 UH 0 0 0 > ppp0 192.168.0.0 0.0.0.0 255.255.255.0 U 0 0 > 0 eth0 0.0.0.0 169.237.17.97 0.0.0.0 UG 0 0 > 0 ppp0 > > ----------- > > Does this seem normal? To me, what I've done seems like a crude work- > around. Is there a better way to allow the modem and ethernet to live > together in peace? Why do you have a default route via 192.168.0.1? Do you have internet access via a LAN? - -- PGP/GPG Fingerprint: 3B30 C6BE B1C6 9526 7A90 34E7 11DF 44F3 7217 7BC7 On pgp.mit.edu, import with `gpg --keyserver pgp.mit.edu --recv-key 72177BC7` Also available at http://www.cal.net/~ryan/ryan_at_mother_dot_com.asc -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.2 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE/4/xNEd9E83IXe8cRAiOwAKCIqasDg0qrKa7FGeeFmcQQtwlG9gCgnbyl uJYxpYZvKt2aX/26953fVk8= =B85G -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ vox-tech mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.lugod.org/mailman/listinfo/vox-tech
