Hi, Im sure it is because I screwed something up on the install that mine is not setup correctly. However I did not want to retry it as installing Mandrake 8.1 on a P90 is a little painful. I had a few crashes as well.
Because of the spec of my machine I did a fairly small install. Just enough for the firewalling. Then later rpm'd the NDS server as well. Thanks for the info on the network scripts. Ill look into those files when I get home. Re your question. I dont think it will be a problem. In route you can define routes to addresses which dont exist and they will kick in once they are available. So the fact that ppp0 drops from time to time should not matter. In fact mine has dropped once already without any problem (it re-connected automatically and continued to work). Claude. > Hi, > > I've got the same modem as you but the routing is set up correctly. > I used drakconf to configure my setup. > I see in /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts that ifup sets the default route > and ifup-ppp deletes any existing route prior to that. It's quite > complicated. > I'm also planning of setting up a fw using fwbuilder as a front-end. Do > you think it is possible to define the external interface in our case > since the address we have is not fixed and the interface, ppp0, > dissappears from time to time. > I haven't looked into it I must admit but if you have any experience... > > Guy.
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