Re: PPP - almost there, but stuck on routing table :(
John Miskinis writes:
> No default route "stuff" shows up, and I'm wondering if the debian
> distribution sets up something that I must change.
Did you set up an ethernet card when you installed? If you did the install
will have set up a defaultroute to the ethernet. Pppd won't override an
existing defaultroute. You can probably just remove that default route:
most people don't need it.
> When I ran "pppconfig" it put the 2 DNS server numbers in OK, but
> according to the howto, there should be a "domain ISP_DOMAIN_NAME" line
> before them, and I don't know the name, or if it is needed.
The HOWTO is wrong. "domain ISP_DOMAIN_NAME" is not needed.
> I am using a PCMCIA-based modem, connecting manually through minicom and
> specifying my username and password. I then quit minicom leaving the
> modem connected, and run "pppd -d -detach /dev/ttyS2 57600".
Why are you doing that? Why don't you just use 'pon' to start the
connection and 'poff' to stop it? You ran pppconfig: pon should work
fine.
Using pon may also solve your defaultroute problem.
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