Re: Setting up the defaultroute for PPP

[sam <sam@rm-r.net>]

I've done that before on my other machine..
but with standard pppd and the debain pppconfig utility instead of wvdial.

in my /etc/ppp/ip-up.d/0local (I made it myself for this purpose) goes
something that looks like this:
#!/bin/sh
route del default
route add default ppp0

Somehow, when PPP goes down, I think it magically gives back the default
route.. because I don't have a script to do it in my ip-down.d.. 

Even on my powerbook, wvdial took a backseat to pppconfig..

Hope I could help.. 
On Tue, 4 Jul 2000, Sergio Brandano wrote:

> 
> Hello boys and girls!
> 
> netbase added this text in my /etc/init.d/network file:
> 
> # (added automatically by netbase upgrade)
> #
> # In new Debian installations, this file is deprecated in favour of
> # the ifup/ifdown commands (invoked from /etc/init.d/networking), which
> # can be configured from the file /etc/network/interfaces.
> 
> I have now modified /etc/network/interfaces to the case, with the 
> simplest possible config, as from the given example. I have then
> renamed /etc/init.d/network so that it is not loaded at boot time.
> After reboot, eth0 comes up. By magic, after a while it goes down.
> I still have to understand how this new method works, and the man
> does not help. This whole thing arised from a simpler issue, that
> used to be simple to solve. When PPP comes up, it needs to take
> over the default route, then return it when it goes down. I have
> added defaultroute to /etc/ppp/options but it does not work. This
> whole thing seem to be broken, and I need the help of someone that
> knows how the new network management works.
> 
> P.S. I am using the latest pppd and wvdial.
> 
> Sergio
> 
> 
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