Re: Modem and NIC Gateway

[Ron Johnson <ron.l.johnson@cox.net>]

On 02/05/2009 07:07 AM, Zanga Chimombo wrote:
> > Your problem is that you aren't defining a gateway address.
> i've tried "route add default gw 172.21.0.1 ppp0", after which the 
> routing table looks thus.
>
> Kernel IP routing table
> Destination     Gateway         Genmask         Flags   MSS Window  irtt 
> Iface
> 172.21.0.1      0.0.0.0         255.255.255.255 UH        0 0          0  ppp0
> 192.168.0.0     0.0.0.0         255.255.255.0   U         0 0          0  eth0
> 0.0.0.0         172.21.0.1      0.0.0.0         UG        0 0          0  ppp0
> 0.0.0.0         0.0.0.0         0.0.0.0         U         0 0          0  ppp0
>
> but i still can't ping 172.21.0.1 from a client.

Because you added a new line to the routing table.  It needs to 
modify the Iface 172.21.0.1.  Preferably when you actually create 
the link in wvdial.

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Ron Johnson, Jr.
Jefferson LA  USA

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