On Mon, Oct 08, 2001 at 11:57:15AM -0400, Hall Stevenson wrote: | > ... I can verify, though, that using a machine as an | > ethernet LAN => PPP WAN gateway works quite | > well... | | I don't doubt that it does, but this machine probably *always* | uses ppp, right ?? That's not my case. I defined an actual | gateway, which I wouldn't do with a normal ppp config.
Yes, that box always used PPP to get to the internet. Though if eth0 is hooked to the DSL modem, then you don't really have a reason to have it up when the DSL is down so it shouldn't be a big problem for you. -D
