Subject: Re: routing
From: James Gibson (twistedhammer@subdimension.com)
Date: Sun May 19 2002 - 08:45:09 AKDT
As you pointed out, it is pppd that calls /etc/ppp/ip-up. Unless Redhat
did some serious tweaking that should work. But setting the route in the
ip-up script is redundant.
To answer Greg's question, 'pppd' has a 'defaultroute' option which is the
usual way to perform that function. This has the side benefit of
_removing_ that default route when the interface goes down.
James Gibson
On Sat, 18 May 2002, Jim Courtney wrote:
> The last thing pppd does when the connection comes up is call
> /etc/ppp/ip-up with the connection parameters as arguments. It should look
> something like this, assuming you're only running one ppp connection:
>
> /sbin/route add default gw $5
>
> You might want to execute your firewall script after that too.
>
> That's how I have my SuSE machine set up, using Roaring Penguin PPPoE.
> Redhat might work differently, but I'll bet it's the same.
>
> JC
>
> At 08:27 PM 5/18/2002 -0800, Greg Jetter wrote:
> >I had a route problem , for some unkown reason , linux forgot where the
> >gateway was for my DSL connection , of course a simple nudg in an X term
> >reminded it where to send packets ... my question is , about how the route
> >is first configured on a redhat box. during what part of the boot process
> >does this happen ?
> >
> >Where , at that is what file handles setting the routes and when during the
> >boot process is the route set.?
> >
> >
> >Greg
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