I've been experimenting getting ppp running as a backup when my cable modem connection goes belly up for whatever reason. I disable eth0 with: ifdown eth0. Then I pon & later I poff I then do a: ifup eth0 Now I cannot access the internet through my cable modem (connected to eth0). My original routing table before ifdown is:
Destination Gateway Genmask Flags Metric Ref Use Iface 192.168.1.0 * 255.255.255.0 U 0 0 0 eth1 localnet * 255.255.252.0 U 0 0 0 eth0 default bb1-fe0-0-0.pot 0.0.0.0 UG 0 0 0 eth0 After the ifup my table is: Destination Gateway Genmask Flags Metric Ref Use Iface 192.168.1.0 * 255.255.255.0 U 0 0 0 eth1 localnet * 255.255.252.0 U 0 0 0 eth0 default 24.7.136.1 0.0.0.0 UG 0 0 0 eth0 Now, if I run pon/poff again, my default gateway for eth0 reverts back to: default bb1-fe0-0-0.pot 0.0.0.0 UG 0 0 0 eth0 Now that I've invented the hard way to fix this, what's the easy way? John