[Gllug] defaultroute problems

[Mark Preston]

Hi all,
A question I hope somebody can answer. How do I change the defaultroute?
I can connect to the internet via a 56k modem connection on two different 
computers, but on one the defaultroute is set to the ethernet connection, and 
so it won't actually allow browsing the internet etc. The one that works fine 
gives the following output when I type "route" in a shell terminal (as root):-

Kernel IP routing table
Destination     Gateway         Genmask         Flags Metric Ref    Use Iface
192.168.1.0     m.n.p           255.255.255.0   UG    0      0        0 eth0
192.168.1.0     *               255.255.255.0   U     0      0        0 eth0
127.0.0.0        *               255.0.0.0       U     0      0        0 lo

Once online this changes to
Destination     Gateway         Genmask         Flags Metric Ref    Use Iface
nac0892600-zetn *               255.255.255.255 UH    0      0        0 ppp0
192.168.1.0     m.n.p           255.255.255.0   UG    0      0        0 eth0
192.168.1.0     *               255.255.255.0   U     0      0        0 eth0
127.0.0.0       *               255.0.0.0       U     0      0        0 lo
default         nac0892600-zetn 0.0.0.0         UG    0      0        0 ppp0

The other computer, the one that doesn't allow programs to run on the 
internet, gives:-
Kernel IP routing table
Destination     Gateway         Genmask         Flags Metric Ref    Use Iface
192.168.1.0     *               255.255.255.0   U     0      0        0 eth0
127.0.0.0       *               255.0.0.0       U     0      0        0 lo
default           l.j.p           255.255.255.0   UG    0      0        0 eth0

and when I type "pppd call uklinux" in addition to the connection information 
the /var/log/ppp_messages file outputs a line such as 'cannot override 
defaultroute, keeping defaultroute as eth0 connection. '

Has anybody out there got a simple solution to solve this problem? - or even 
a not simple solution.
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Regards from Mark Preston

www.markpreston.co.uk


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