On 2016/05/23 16:51, Gerhard Roth wrote: > > This is the kind of horrors I have been removing during the past years. > > > > Why do you need to set a default route in the first place? > > Just like PPP this was designed as a point-to-point interface. The idea > is that once you get an uplink, all traffic should be routed through it. > > What other sensible routing could there be? Only routing some selected IP > addresses through your mobile uplink doesn't seem like the normal use case.
Routing just certain destinations over a particular PPP is definitely valid, and I think the same applies here. (Maybe you have a fast ISP and a cheap ISP and want to use the fast one for some VPN or important traffic). What I don't understand is why routing to a point-to-point interface needs anything other than the interface name to be used for the destination.
