[NTLUG:Discuss] ppp

[Darin Smith]

Back when I was on dial-up, I had this problem with Mandrake, which is
RH based, so maybe it's similar.

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.

The solution I came up with was to delete my default route before using
KPPP to dial out.

route del default

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?)  

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.

# get rid of default route so that kppp can negotiate its own
/sbin/route del default

--Darin

On Tue, 2003-01-28 at 16:28, terry wrote:
> 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.
> 
> Any clues as to where to start?  Or how can I manually establish default 
> route?
> 
> 
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