> I dont know if this has been addressed before but ISDN setup is still not
> working very well (at least in 7.2). Yes, I can get my hardware to work with
> isdn setup and manually calling
> ifup ippp0
> isdnctrl dial ippp0
> route add default ippp0
You're absolutely right, I had the same problem.
> But I dont understand why my default route is not set automatically by ifup
> ippp0. There is these lines in ifup:
>
> if [ "${GATEWAYDEV}" = "" -o "${GATEWAYDEV}" = "${DEVICE}" ]; then
> # set up default gateway
> if [ "${GATEWAY}" != "" ]; then
> route add default gw ${GATEWAY} ${DEVICE}
> DEFGW=${GATEWAY}
> elif [ "${GATEWAYDEV}" = "${DEVICE}" ]; then
> route add default ${DEVICE}
> fi
> fi
I don't know exactly, but I traced this problem some weeks ago.
I think, the problem was that ifup-ippp0 wasn't executed by ifup.
> Besides this, Mandrake is an awesome distribution. I switched from SuSE and
> like my Mandrake better every day I use it.
You're so right !!! I also switched from SuSE.
But - even if it's hard for some of you - Debian is still better because of the
Debian-Package-Format (much better than RPM, even if extended by Apt).
> PS sorry for my bad English
>From me, too :-)
Bye
Michael
