On Fri, 6 Aug 1999, Kathryn Cassidy wrote:
> I'm trying to get my dial up to work and I'm not being all that successful.
> It's dialling in allright, but when ppp starts it seems to be using the
> local host IP for my machine and 0.0.0.0 or something like that for the
> remote machine. I assume I've got default route set up somewhere for my
> network card and that's conflicting with my ppp default route.
> The question is, where the hell am I likely to find the config file that's
> setting up the network default route?
> I'm running Mandrake 6.0 if that makes any difference.
Mandrake is based on RedHat is it not?
If that is the case, you can set the default route by editing files in
/etc/sysconfig/network-scripts
Have a look at our pages on connecting via Linux as well.
T.
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