On Mon, 2 Nov 1998, Ishaaq Chandy wrote:
...
> However after this all communication with ppp0 seems to stop. If I ping my
> ISP, all the packets are lost. In fact by comparing the packets sent out by
> first running ifconfig then pinging my ISP then ifconfig again, I see that
> the pinging took place at eth0 instead of ppp0! This is inspite of the fact
> that I set ppp0 to be defaultroute. As a last ditch effort I gave up XISP
> and used a chat script (again with defaultroute set) but to no avail.
pppd will not replace existing defaultroutes, which your eth0 interface
probably is.
To do this, you need to alter the default route with ip-up and ip-down
scripts. This is described in the PPP-HOWTO.
Geof
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