On Sun, 13 Oct 2002 14:40:50 -0700, Jack Bowling wrote:

> > >   Otherwise, pppd knows only about eth0, which is the interface
> > >   connected 
> > > to the ADSL modem. pppd knows nothing about eth1, so pppd is
> > > unable to make eth0 and eth1 communicate between each other.
> > 
> > pppd doesn't need to. It creates a default route to ppp0 when the
> > DSL/PPPoE connection has been established.
> 
> Frm man pppd:
> 
> defaultroute
>               Add a default route to the system routing tables, using
>               the peer as the gateway, when IPCP negotiation is
>               successfully completed. This  entry  is removed when the
>               PPP connection is broken.  This option is privileged if
>               the nodefaultroute option has been spec- ified.
> 
> This implies that a default route will not be created by pppd if the
> "defaultroute" option is not supplied to pppd. Check your pppd
> options.

Not sure what you're trying to point out, but the rp-pppoe scripts
add option "defaultroute" by default.

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