[ILUG] Re: Mandrake Kppp Problem.

[Eugene O'Leary]

> I have used Mandrake 7.0 and 7.1 in the past and am now using version 8.0.
> With each of them I have encountered the same problem with Kppp when
> connecting to Esatclear. (Probably caused by having two home PC's
> networked.) I was able to make the connection O.K. but then I was unable to
> connect to the Internet or even to ping Esatclear on 194.145.128.1 My
> solution up to now has been to log in as root user and use "usernet". I
> (and others) have asked for a possible solution in the past but nobody was
> able to help. Now maybe I, myself can help. I bought a cd in Easons
> yeserday. Title: " Definite Linux Bookshelf. Version 1". It has got 25 of
> the best Linux books on it plus all the man pages and Howtos. I found a
> solution to the problem in the first Linux networking book that I opened on
> it. The problem is a routing problem.
> If I make a connection and then change to root user (su) and type in
> "route", I get the following:
> -----------------------------------------------------------
> [webmaster at howth-design webmaster]$ su
> Password:
> [root at howth-design webmaster]$ route
> Kernel IP routing table
> Destination	Gateway	  Genmask	   Flags  Metric Ref  Use  Iface
> 194.145.128.236 *	  255.255.255.255              UH	  0      0     0    
> ppp0 192.168.0.0	*	  255.255.255.0	               U	  0      0     0     
> eth0 127.0.0.0	*	  255.0.0.0	               U	  0      0     0      lo
> default		howth-des 0.0.0.0	               UG	  0      0     0      eth0
> ---------------------------------------------------------------------
> The default route seems to be set to my network card rather than to the
> modem.
> --------------------------------------------------------------------- If I
> then type the following at the prompt:
> [root at howth-design webmaster]$ route add default ppp0
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
> I get the following:
> Kernel IP routing table
> Destination	Gateway	  Genmask	   Flags  Metric Ref Use Iface
> quar167.esatcle *	  255.255.255.255  UH	  0	  0      0	     ppp0
> 192.168.0.1	*	  255.255.255.0	   U	  0          0      0      eth0
> 127.0.0.1	*	  255.0.0.0	   U	  0	  0      0      lo
> default		*	  0.0.0.0	   U	   0	  0          0      0      ppp0
> default		howth.des 0.0.0.0	   UG	  0          0      0	     eth0
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
> Hi, Presto! I am now connected.
> The only problem now is that I have to go through the same routine each
> time. Does anybody know how I can edit my routing table  so that I can
> avoid this, or more importantly, how where do I find my routing table! :-)
> Hope that I have helped someone.
>
> Eugene O'Leary.