On Tue, 27 Oct 1998, Chris Evans wrote: > I have moved my debian machine home from old workplace and am > trying to configure it for ppp access to my university ppp entry > point. I have used pppconfig to enter the basic parameters that > work for Win95 ppp access and I can see from plog (after pon) that > I am getting a connection to the system and it notes the fixed > address that it serves to me (which I have put in my /etc/hosts) and > the host address that it uses. plog then shows a complaint: > Cannot determine ethernet address for proxy ARP > that was linked with a comment about not replacing existing default > route for eth0 so I edited out all the eth0 lines in /etc/init.d/network > leaving only the loopback lines. I rebooted and that removed the > comment about not replacing the existing default route but....
Here's my /etc/init.d/network on a machine at home. All that needs to change is the gateway and the network. I think Debian ought to put a test on the NETWORK variable as well as GATEWAY. Ignore all the aliasing stuff. The first is for a laptop, the second is to fool my wife's machine into thinking I'm her employer's gateway when it's connected to mine at home. #!/bin/sh IPADDR=333.444.888.999 NETMASK=255.255.254.0 #NETWORK=333.444.888.0 BROADCAST=333.444.889.255 #GATEWAY=333.444.888.1 IPALIAS1=192.168.69.49 NETMASK1=255.255.255.0 NETWORK1=192.168.69.0 #IPALIAS2=192.555.666.254 #NETMASK2=255.255.255.0 #NETWORK2=192.555.666.0 ifconfig lo 127.0.0.1 route add -net 127.0.0.0 if [ "${IPADDR}" ] then ifconfig eth0 ${IPADDR} netmask ${NETMASK} broadcast ${BROADCAST} [ "${NETWORK}" ] && route add -net ${NETWORK} [ "${GATEWAY}" ] && route add default gw ${GATEWAY} metric 1 echo -e "\t IP ${IPADDR} \t Mask ${NETMASK} \t Net ${NETWORK}" echo -e "\t Brcst ${BROADCAST} \t GW ${GATEWAY}" if [ "${IPALIAS1}" ] then ifconfig eth0:1 ${IPALIAS1} route add -net ${NETWORK1} netmask ${NETMASK1} dev eth0:1 echo -e "\t " echo -e "\t Alias ${IPALIAS1} \t Mask ${NETMASK1} \t Net ${NETWORK1}" if [ "${IPALIAS2}" ] then ifconfig eth0:2 ${IPALIAS2} route add -net ${NETWORK2} netmask ${NETMASK2} dev eth0:2 echo -e "\t " echo -e "\t Alias ${IPALIAS2} \t Mask ${NETMASK2} \t Net ${NETWORK2}" fi fi fi Cheers, -- Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tel: +44 1908 653 739 Fax: +44 1908 655 151 Snail: David Wright, Earth Science Dept., Milton Keynes, England, MK7 6AA Disclaimer: These addresses are only for reaching me, and do not signify official stationery. Views expressed here are either my own or plagiarised.