[NTLUG:Discuss] ppp

[terry]

Darin Smith wrote:

>Back when I was on dial-up, I had this problem with Mandrake, which is
>RH based, so maybe it's similar.
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>Everything was fine just using KPPP, but then one day I farted around in
>the LinuxConf PPP settings section, and it started doing something,
>because I suddenly couln't get a route to anywhere.
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>The solution I came up with was to delete my default route before using
>KPPP to dial out.
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>route del default
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>Every time I rebooted, it would hose it up somehow.  I never figured out
>how...I'm guessing something under /etc/sysconfig/net, but who knows? 
>Some of these graphical "admin helpers" do the opposite (good ones are
>great...but bad ones are really bad...I had a heck of a time getting
>accustomed to NeXT's 12 years ago because they had flat files, but
>didn't use them...instead they used something that wound up (IMO)
>inspiring the wretched Registry in Windows.  Some database in binary
>format that you could not edit without their stupid graphical tools. 
>What a pain...why does anyone worry about speeding up access to
>configuration data that usually gets read ONCE at boot?)  
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>Anyway, I wound up putting this line as the last in my rc.local and
>every boot after that, it automagically took care of the problem.
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># get rid of default route so that kppp can negotiate its own
>/sbin/route del default
>
>--Darin
>

Okay, thanks.  I'll try that

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>On Tue, 2003-01-28 at 16:28, terry wrote:
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>>I did a RH8 install on a 800MHz celeron for my cousin and had the PCtel 
>>modem working okay at first but tried to implement another dialer, one 
>> that wouldn't require root password, and was successful with that but 
>>had to use an external modem.  Now, he's loaded linux on another machine 
>>and is using the external modem on that one, so I'm back to trying to 
>>make the winmodem run again.    I can get it to dial up and log in to 
>>the isp but nothing more. Not sure but think it's just that it's not 
>>establishing the default route to the internet.  Either that, or it's 
>>the ppp daemon not working.
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>>Any clues as to where to start?  Or how can I manually establish default 
>>route?
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