That's the basic thing they teach in all the Israeli Cable Internet FAQs :)
I even published a wrapper that does this automatically: http://mirror.hamakor.org.il/archives/linux-il/10-2003/6117.html On 1/30/07, Micha Feigin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
I appears that pptp (or pppd, don't know) set the gw for gre tunnel data to the tunnel itself causing a loopback of the data. This is one thing that windows seems to handle right but linux mixes up completely (it seems that at least some routing information is sent but either it is wrong or linux miss handles it). Overriding the routing to the pptp server solved the problem.