[ILUG] ISDN routing problems

Mark Finlay sisob at eircom.net
Mon Nov 12 21:03:44 GMT 2001


On Mon, 2001-11-12 at 10:22, Niall O Broin wrote:
> I have set up a SuSE 7.2 box which will be using an ISDN card for net
> access. I want it to autodial but it's not playing i.e. it doesn't bring up
> the link when I ping an nuknown address, as it should. Yast2 sets the ISDN
> up with addresses of 192.168.0.99 and 192.168.0.1 (local and remote ends of
> the IPPP link) and sets a default route via 192.168.0.1. However, the ISDN
> connection uses dynamic IP so when it comes up it gets addresses like
> a.b.c.d and a.b.c.e to the routing doesn't work unless I delete the default
> route via 192.168.0.1 before the link comes up - then default routing gets
> set up correctly. 
you could look around for the scripts that bring up the connection and 
add a line that removes the default route before it dials.


Mark





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