Thanks for the quick response Ed.
I knew it had something to do with the routing, and I had had trouble with
the static-routes file before but it didn't appear to be it this time.
I
dunno why I didn't think of this before, but a simple route del
default and then route add default ppp0 sorted it out
perfectly.
Thanks anyway.
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----- Original Message -----
From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Monday, August 12, 2002 9:04 AM
Subject: Re: pppd "not replacing existing default
route to eth0"
>
> > When I run pppd, it's connecting to the ISP ok, but traffic doesn't go
> > anywhere and in /var/log/messages, I'm getting "not replacing existing
> > default route to eth0". I can see why outgoing traffic isn't going
> > anywhere cause its trying to go out via eth0, but why is this?
> >
> > I *think* this has something to do with static-routes in /etc/sysconfig
> > but I'm not sure.
>
> Do the static routes include a static default route? If so, then you are
> probably correct in your guess.
>
> At this point the obvious answer is to "experiment". Making sure you keep
> a copy of your configuration files, delete the static routes you guess may
> be causing the problem. If that clears things up with regards to Internet
> connectivity...then you may be all the way there....or part of the way
> there. Depending on your network topology you may have to add additional
> static routes to compensate for the new default route.
>
> Regards,
> Ed
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