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Date:      Tue, 7 Jul 1998 07:55:43 -0500 (EST)
From:      P Lynch <lynch@rush.net>
To:        "Numard (Norberto Meijome)" <numard@smartmedia.com.ar>
Cc:        "Joe \"Marcus\" Clarke" <marcus@miami.edu>, Richard Savage <r.savage@dial.pipex.com>, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: PPP and
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.3.96.980707075407.12461H-100000@cygnus.rush.net>
In-Reply-To: <35A17FC1.1DC2BE4E@smartmedia.com.ar>

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FreeBSD user ppp is NOT linux pppd

now that we have that straight, thats exactly what someone was saying, the
"delete ALL" actually clears the existing routes and add 0 0 HISADDR adds
the default route.

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Pat Lynch						lynch@rush.net
Systems Administrator					Rush Networking
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On Tue, 7 Jul 1998, Numard (Norberto Meijome) wrote:

> > 
> > It sounds like you're not adding any routes when PPP goes up.  If you're
> > using dynamic IP addressing, make sure you have a block in your ppp.linkup
> > file that looks like:
> > 
> > provider:
> >  delete ALL
> >  add 0 0 HISADDR
> > 
> > If you're doing all of this interactively, once you've connected and
> > entered packet mode, type:
> > 
> > delete ALL
> > add 0 0 HISADDR
> > 
> > At the PPP prompt to get a gateway of last resort (default route) going.
> > Tehn you should be able to navigate around the Internet just fine.
> hi!
> i dunno with FreeBSD, but with linux, one of the params to pppd is
> "routedefault", that'll make pppd set the default routing and all that
> stuff. the only thing you have to remember about is (if you have any
> defaultroute BEFORE connecting to the outsideworld) is to delete this
> route BEFORE dialing up, becose pppd won't set it up if there's another
> default route set up.
> -- 
> Norberto Meijome (a) Numard, (a) Beto | ICQ # 15032073
>  * Contrary to popular belief, Unix is user friendly. It just happens to
> be very selective about who it decides to make friends with.
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