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[mcw@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx (Matthew Wiener)]

Hi, all.  I've almost got everything working, but my ppp connection has a
weird, and very inconvenient problem.  Once it starts up, I can get to any
machine (including resolving names and so on) except those on my own
subnet!  Very inconvenient.  Here's as much information as I know how to
give:

my route.conf file looks like this:

xxx.xx.xxx.0 	0.0.0.0     255.255.254.0   eth0
xxx.xx.xxx.0	0.0.0.0	    255.255.254.0   ppp0

The two addresses are the same, because I'm trying to connect to the same
place at the end.  Ethernet works fine, by the way.  I set things up this
way based on some messages on this list a while ago (before I joined).

When I first start up using wvdial, the command "route" gives the
following:

Dest	Gateway		Genmask		Flags  ....   Iface

xxx.xx.xx.x   *       255.255.255.255	UH	ppp0
tel156.40.248.0  *   255.255.254.0      U       eth0
loopback ...				U
default   xxx.xx.xx.x   0.0.0.0         UG       ppp0

That "tel" in the second line is interesting -- I suspect it's relevant,
but I don't know what to do with it.

Now, as I said, I can do anything except access the machines I most want
-- those on my own subnet.  If I try to telnet for example, I get the
message "no route to host".

Now if I try rcroute restart, I get an error message:

Error while executing:
        /sbin/route del -net xxx.xx.xxx.0 netmask 255.255.254.0 dev ppp0
        SIOCDELRT:  No such process
Shutting down routing					failed

Now my route table is just as before, but with the eth0 line above no
longer present.  And I can get to anything.

If I remove the ppp0 line from /etc/route.conf, the same thing happens
except that after the error I still can't get to my own machines.

Any help greatly appreciated.

Thanks,

Matt Wiener


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