Hi Gerald, But if you run the KPPP setup > there is a dialog under the IP tab it has two selections > Dynamic IP Address and static IP Address > select Dynamic IP Address > Then under the Gateway tab > select Default Gateway > and Assign the Default Route to this Gateway > > that should make it work automagically
It is already set this way, I guess somehow it is not working. At least I have got this far, this email is from KMail rather than Outlook Express under Windows ! I'm open for suggestions or what anyone may have found to work here ! All the best. Rob. On Wednesday 03 April 2002 12:23 pm, you wrote: > On Wednesday 03 April 2002 04:16 pm, Robert Milne wrote: > > One question though (if you know !), whilst it works OK, why do I have to > > keep manually adding the route everytime I connect ppp ? How can this be > > automated in kppp ? Am I missing some basic setup information anywhere > > in KDE ? Obviously as the DHCP allocated address changes everytime I > > can't put a permanent route in, but there must be someway to detect the > > local client address and create the route each time, maybe a script ? > > After all I guess this is all windows does, and they worked it out ! > > On a full-time Internet connection (static IP) /etc/sysconfig/network holds > the gateway information. > > I haven't used ppp in a long time. But if you run the KPPP setup > there is a dialog under the IP tab it has two selections > Dynamic IP Address and static IP Address > select Dynamic IP Address > Then under the Gateway tab > select Default Gateway > and Assign the Default Route to this Gateway > > that should make it work automagically
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