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Re: laptop LAN and modem config



On Tue, 19 Jul 2005 00:31:38 +0100, Doofus wrote:
> I had a one-off need to configure the modem to dial a 56k ISP recently, 
> but my permanently configured static ethernet and gateway addresses 
> jiggered things up for me. I made it work simply by deleting the default 
> route - it seems pppd will only set this there isn't already one there.
> 
> My question is, is there a more elegant or debian preferred method for 
> dealing with this situation, which surely can't be so rare, and yet I've 
> been unable to google anything about it?


No, Debian hasn't managed to solve that problem yet.

Network configuration is one of Debian's big weaknesses.
-- 
Thomas



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