From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Jul 4 12:14:09 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DBF5237B401 for ; Fri, 4 Jul 2003 12:14:09 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mta2.adelphia.net (mta2.adelphia.net [64.8.50.178]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E944A44011 for ; Fri, 4 Jul 2003 12:14:08 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from wmoran@potentialtech.com) Received: from potentialtech.com ([24.53.179.151]) by mta2.adelphia.net (InterMail vM.5.01.05.32 201-253-122-126-132-20030307) with ESMTP id <20030704191408.CYTT1359.mta2.adelphia.net@potentialtech.com>; Fri, 4 Jul 2003 15:14:08 -0400 Message-ID: <3F05D200.3010100@potentialtech.com> Date: Fri, 04 Jul 2003 15:14:08 -0400 From: Bill Moran User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD i386; en-US; rv:1.3) Gecko/20030429 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: stan References: <20030704161329.GB1237@teddy.fas.com> <3F05BEEB.40301@potentialtech.com> <20030704184835.GA4612@teddy.fas.com> In-Reply-To: <20030704184835.GA4612@teddy.fas.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit cc: Free BSD Questions list Subject: Re: How to delete/replace default route using ppp? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 04 Jul 2003 19:14:10 -0000 stan wrote: > On Fri, Jul 04, 2003 at 01:52:43PM -0400, Bill Moran wrote: > >>stan wrote: >> >>>I'm trying to get a new laptop set up for a quick out of town trip. >>> >>>Can anyone help me with the ppp.conf syntax to clear/replace an existing >>>default rout for the duration of a ppp linkup? >>> >>>That is, the machine starts off with a default route, which I want to >>>delete and replace with the ppp route for the duration of the conection. >>>Then I wnat to put the orignal route back. >>> >>>Sugestions? >> >>Please forgive me if I'm saying something you already know. >> >>The default ppp.conf file has a line: >>add default HISADDR >>Which should do what you want. >>I'm not 100% sure that this will actually "delete" a previous route. > > > That's the issue. It will not. Yo get an error message about route 0.0.0.0 > already existing. > > Acording to the ppp.conf man page the line > delete default > or > delete ALL > > _should work, but I'm having troubel getting them to work for me. Hmmm ... it's been a while, but ... Doesn't ppp have a scripting interface? If so, you should be able to run a script that does 'route delete default'? Just thinking out loud. -- Bill Moran Potential Technologies http://www.potentialtech.com