David Clymer wrote: > On Sun, 2004-10-17 at 21:50, Scotty Fitzgerald wrote: >> I had a similar problem, When I set up the machine I >> had a Ethernet card that was autodetected, and the >> the autodetection set up the ethernet card as the default >> gateway to the internet. While your ethernet is the default >> gateway the dialup won't establish itself as a gateway. Try to >> remove the gateway status of your ethernet card, and things should work. >> >> It took me a few googles on Linux networking and I found this, but if >> you can't find a good webpage post a reply, and I will actually start up >> my old windows partition and see if I can find the webpage that clued me >> in. >> > > Please don't top post: http://www.xs4all.nl/~sbpoley/toppost.htm > > A google "i'm feeling lucky" search got me the following page. perhaps > it was the one you were refering to? > > http://www.ale.org/archive/ale/ale-1996-02/msg00026.html > > You could use ip-up & ip-down scripts to setup/tear down routes for your > ppp connection. That would certainly beat doing it manually every time. > > -davidc > > Gee, I always preferred topposts, but ok,
Hi, David, I guess I will have to boot up windows tonight (sigh) to get that URL. No, what I had to do was find this configuration file in the /etc hierarchy and delete the line that said "gateway (192.x.x.x" [whatever x was.] After that my dialup took off. cheers! --- Scotty -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
