Re: must run "ifconfig xxx down" to use ppp connection (was: longest topic ever)

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Subject: Re: must run "ifconfig xxx down" to use ppp connection (was: longest topic ever)
From: Andreas Janssen <andreas.janssen@bigfoot.com>
Date: Fri, 05 Mar 2004 16:49:28 +0100
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References: <[🔎] 40488BAC.9070505@mindspring.com>

Hello

(please use a shorter subject nex time)

Ken Januski (<kenjanuski@mindspring.com>) wrote:

> Can anyone give me any clues as to why I need to run "ifconfig xxx
> down" in order to use pon and modem? I haven't had a network until
> recently but now that I do it would be nice to not need to turn the
> network off in order to use my dialup connection.

This probably is a routing problem. Did  you set a gateway for your
network connection? Maybe it is set to be the default gateway, so even
after bringing up the ppp interface, your systme tries to use the
gateway for your local network to access other hosts. What does

/sbin/route -n

say?

best regards
        Andreas Janssen

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- Can anyone give me any clues as to why I need to run "ifconfig xxx down" in order to use pon and modem? I haven't had a network until recently but now that I do it would be nice to not need to turn the network off in order to use my dialup connection. Thanks for any ideas. Can't use ethernet and modem at same time
  - From: Ken Januski <kenjanuski@mindspring.com>