PPP link kills routing table

[Mark Phillips <mark@maths.flinders.edu.au>]

Hi,

Thank's to all the people who have helped me recently.  Every time I
solve one problem, another appears.

I tried establishing a ppp link and found it didn't work.  To find out
what was going on, I ran route and got:

# route
Kernel IP routing table
Destination     Gateway         Genmask         Flags Metric Ref Use Iface


and then route just hung.

When pppd was not connected, I got:

# route
Kernel IP routing table
Destination     Gateway         Genmask         Flags Metric Ref Use Iface
localnet        *               255.255.255.0   U     0      0 1 eth0
127.0.0.0       *               255.0.0.0       U     0      0 6 lo
default         *               0.0.0.0         U     1      0 12 eth0

or, doing route -n:

# route -n
Kernel IP routing table
Destination     Gateway         Genmask         Flags Metric Ref Use Iface
192.1.1.0       0.0.0.0         255.255.255.0   U     0      0 1 eth0
127.0.0.0       0.0.0.0         255.0.0.0       U     0      0 6 lo
0.0.0.0         0.0.0.0         0.0.0.0         U     1      0 12 eth0


I tried several things to try and get it to work.  Previously ppp had
worked when I had nothing in my /etc/modules file, so I tried
commenting out the entries and rebooted.  PPP now works (as you can
see by the fact that I am typing this), however I think ppp working is
the result of a side effect: namely, that as a result my local
ethernet network wasn't setup.  If I now type route, before running
pppd, I get:

# route
Kernel IP routing table
Destination     Gateway         Genmask         Flags Metric Ref Use Iface
localhost       *               255.255.255.255 UH    0      0 2 lo

And with pppd running I get:

# route
Kernel IP routing table
Destination     Gateway         Genmask         Flags Metric Ref Use Iface
localhost       *               255.255.255.255 UH    0      0 2 lo
annex05.cc.flin *               255.255.255.255 UH    0      0 0 ppp0
default         annex05.cc.flin 0.0.0.0         UG    0      0 3 ppp0



So the question is: what is wrong?  Why can't I run the ethernet
network and pppd at the same time?  I could with my old slackware
system.


Thank's for your help,

Mark Phillips.  (mark@maths.flinders.edu.au)

P.S.  I'm not convinced it is a problem with the ethernet network
because I think (but am not sure) that I may have previously had a
debian system working with both pppd and ethernet running
simultaneously, though, if I remember rightly, I routed ethernet
manually that time.