[ale] pppd and defaultroute
Joe Steele
joe at madewell.com
Sat Sep 7 18:39:29 EDT 2002
On Friday, September 06, 2002 10:03 AM, cfowler wrote:
> I've been playing around with pppd and have an issue with the default
> route parameter. If I do not have a default route specified for eth0
> then pppd will grab the one from Mondspring. If I do have a defroute
> specified for eth0 then pppd refuses to replace it. Is there a way to
> force pppd to replace the default route?
Yes -- use the /etc/ppp/ip-up and ip-down scripts. These scripts are
called with positional parameter $5 set to the remote IP address of the
PPP peer. Use the IP address to reconfigure your routing as needed on
PPP startup and shutdown.
--Joe
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