Hi,

Before connecting to net by dialup just check what is your default route using /sbin/route and check whether u have defaultroute set....

When u dial to internet using modem u can pass a parameter to pppd saying that u don;t need to add defaultroute .Hmmmmm read the man page for pppd there is one option called as 'defaultroute'.

"pppd: not replacing existing default route to eth0 "

If u have default route set on device eth0 then it is quite possible that even though u are connected to your service provider u may not be able to access the net reason being your 'route' is to the local network ( which may be or maynot be on Inet).

While conencting thru dialup pppd was not able to remove this default route.

So there is no need to remove the eth0 device ,,, just remove the default route from eth0 and pass a parameter to pppd saying add a default route ( by default ) to get u working on internet.

Ciao

Tapesh

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 Rupesh wrote:

There is a gateway option in /etc/sysconfig/network (in Redhat)
blank that. ie make it GATEWAY=

this would resolve your prob.

-Rupesh

On 31/07/02 22:11 +0530, akshaysalkar wrote:

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>
> does any know know what this means?
>
> i noticed this is the var/log/messages when connecting via dial-up
> this message comes when my local network is working.
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> however when i disable it ie. my network cards eth0 etc. then my network link works fine.
>
> so what could be the problem?
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