[clug] Route Settings

[Gary Woodman]

--- Martijn van Oosterhout <kleptog at svana.org> wrote:

> Umm, why is your default route pointing to a TAP device? 

Good question! What is a 'tap0', BTW?

> In any case, ppp should be overriding that default route.

IIRC, ppp won't override a default route. Richard might want to 'route
del default' before connecting with ppp.

Gary

> On Fri, May 21, 2004 at 12:38:41PM +1000, Richard Jenkins wrote:
> > 
> > After a debian (3.0) install on  this machine, my route table looks
> 
> > like this:
> > 
> > Destination     Gateway         Genmask                 Flags  
> Metric 
> >  Ref     Use     Interface
> > ==============================================================
> > 192.168.0.2         *               255.255.255.255.255   UH      1
>    
> >            0       0        tap0
> > localnet               *                255.255.255.0             
> U   
> >        0               0       0       eth0
> > default                 *               0.0.0.0                    
>    
> >   U          1            0        0        tap0
> > 
> >
>
----------------------------------------------------------------------
> > ---------------------------------------
> > This machine's address (fixed) is 192.168.0.2 ... but the network
> is 
> > not connected.
> > 
> > I have a dialup ISP arrangement and can dial the ISP and pass the 
> > identification process using either pppconf or wvdial.  What is 
> > missing from my route table that will allow me to cruise the 'net
> and 
> > recover emails?  All replies thankfully received.
> > 
> > Many thanks
> > 
> > 
> > Richard
> > 
> > 
> > --
> > Irena and Richard Jenkins
> > Canberra   AUSTRALIA
> > ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
> > 
> 
> -- 
> Martijn van Oosterhout   <kleptog at svana.org>  
> http://svana.org/kleptog/
> > Patent. n. Genius is 5% inspiration and 95% perspiration. A patent
> is a
> > tool for doing 5% of the work and then sitting around waiting for
> someone
> > else to do the other 95% so you can sue them.
> 

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