Re: ppp0 as default?

[Andreas Janssen <andreas.janssen@bigfoot.com>]

Hello

John Kerr Anderson (<johnan@student.flint.umich.edu>) wrote:

> I have a machine that has been on an ethernet network, but is being
> switched to a standalone dialup computer.  I cannot tell the computer
> to use ppp0 as the default route.
> 
> I issue the command <route add default ppp0> but everytime I
> reconnect, it must be issued to use ppp0 again.

Set the option in the ppp configuration. There is a "defaultroute"
option set in my /etc/ppp/peers/myprovider. The man page for pppd says
something about this.

best regards
        Andreas Janssen

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