Re: Preventing default route being wrongly attached

[robert fernando <robert.fernando@ntlworld.com>]

Hi all,
Further investigations into this problem, suggest thast it is a conflict 
between diald and pppd.
Do I need to get diald and pppd working together if I want to support 
dial in connections and ppp out to my isp.
I use the pon script to start a connection to my isp and poff to 
disconnect the connection to my isp.
If I do require diald and pppd to owrk together, would somebody be kind 
enought to post configuration files to do this or a sutable location 
where I can find then.

thanks
Robert Fernando


Andreas Janssen wrote:
> Hello
>
> robert fernando (<robert.fernando@ntlworld.com>) wrote:
>
>
> > Q1 How do I reconfigure a Debian 3.x system 2.2.20-idepci so that the
> > default route is not tied to the sl0 / slip device.
> > eth0 is setup to be connected to a 3c509 ethernert card.
> >
> > Why do I need to do this.
> > It appears that having sl0 atached to the default route before doing a
> > dial up which uses ppp cause ppp to login correctly, but then fail on
> > sending of packet data / ping data nothing is sent.
> >
> > Do I need sl0 /slip  support to be active if want to support dial too
> > my pc and dialout to a isp that supports ppp. If not how do I prevent 
> > slip support from loading.
>
>
> You do not need slip to use ppp. To make sure you don't have problems
> you can:
>
> - remove the slip entry from /etc/network/interfaces or
> - remove the gateway entry for slip in /etc/network/interfaces or
> - put a script in /etc/ppp/ip-up.d that sets the default route to the
> ppp connection (using the route program)
>
> best regards
>         Andreas Janssen


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