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, > > -- > Nathan Norman - Staff Engineer | A good plan today is better > Micromuse Ltd. | than a perfect plan tomorrow. > mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] | -- Patton > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Part 1.2Type: application/pgp-signature
