Re: Set the default route?
Thanks to both Nathan and Dave, these are a great relief; I've been
going around in circles for quite a while here.
Mike
Nathan E Norman wrote:
> On Wed, Oct 17, 2001 at 08:59:43AM -0500, Mike Missett wrote:
> > I seem to be having the same problem as some other people in
> > the mailing lists, namely, that the defaultroute for ppp is going
> > to eth0 when that's not my connection. Advising somebody a
> > week or so ago John Hasler suggested:
> >
> > "You probably have a defaultroute pointing to eth0 and pppd won't
> > replace
> > it. Remove that defaultroute and ppp shoul work."
> >
> > I think this is what I need to do, my question is, how do I do it?
> > I haven't figured it out from the lists, experimentation, or the
> > man page (although I probably should be able to from there if
> > I were a little less ignorant). Any help would be most appreciated.
>
> Do you have a "gateway" directive within the eth0 stanza in
> /etc/network/interfaces? If so, comment it out. When networking is
> restarted, a default route on eth0 will not be added.
>
> Another post already detailed how to remove the default route now
> (though it will come back when networking is restarted).
>
> Regards,
>
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