On Monday, 4. Juni 2001 22:27 you wrote:
* J. Mell wrote on Mon, Jun 04, 2001 at 18:27 +0200:
...or you have got no default route to your ISP's IP, especially if you have a PPP connection to the ISP. IPPP seems to drop default routes if you do not place a '-defaultroute' in /etc/ppp/options.ippp0
I'm sure that ipppd will not replace existing default routes, from /var/log/messages:
May 17 11:28:00 dx ipppd[1407]: ppp not replacing existing default route to ippp6[0.0.0.0]
This happens, if there is a 'defaultroute' statement in /etc/ppp/options.ippp0 and no 'deldefaultroute'. Unfortunately something must have changed from SuSE 6.3 to 7.1: If there is no 'defaultroute' statement in /etc/ppp/options.ippp0, a previuosly set default route (from /etc/route.conf) will be deleted - at least sometimes (I could not reproduce the conditions when and why the route was deleted.) This resulted in the first connection to our ISP to work correctly but afterwords (we have a dial-up line to the ISP) I got lots of Martian packets due to the missing route. I fixed this with a '-defaultroute' statement in /etc/ppp/options.ippp0 and now everything is fine, as the route set from /etc/route.conf stays active. Bye, Jürgen