Re: SLIP and PPP routing problems
>On Tue, 30 Jan 1996, Nelson Posse Lago fflch - fsl 3704 wrote:
>
>> problem: when I use DIP with SLIP or PPPd to connect to my
>> university, neither one alters the routing table. DIP doesn't
>> even do "ifconfig sl0 up".
>
>This was said by Karl Ferguson in response to a question by
>Mark Patterson:
Actually, it's Mike Patterson, but let's not get nit-picky.
> > I just switched over from Slackware to Debian, and I'm only having
> > one problem right now. I appear to be able to connect to my SLIP server
> > using dip, but the route table only shows localhost.
>
> The problem is with the slhc module under 1.2.13 - it's corrupt or
> something like that. If you compile a kernel with SLIP/CSLIP into the
> kernel and dont load slip/slhc as modules you'll find all will be ok.
>
> Hope this helps,
>
> ...Karl
I had to do one additional thing. The "default" command didn't work in dip,
so I had to enter the following command at the prompt after going into SLIP
mode:
route add default <Remote IP> dev sl0
Hope this also helps.
----Mike
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