Subject: Re: ethernet / dialup
From: John Schmidt (jas@netbrick.com)
Date: Fri Feb 22 2002 - 08:35:54 MST
This question comes up often, and the way to fix the dialup issue with the
default route is to edit /etc/sysconfig/network and change the
GATEWAYDEV=eth0 to GATEWAYDEV= (that is leave it blank). Then your route
will be correct when using dialup.
John Schmidt
jas@netbrick.com
On Friday 22 February 2002 12:34 am, you wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> When I use my laptop at home, I have a dialup connection,
> but I also bring it into work and use ethernet there.
>
> For dialup, I first have to su in as root and
> "route del default" to get rid of eth0 as the default route.
>
> For ethernet, again I first have to su in as root and
> this time type "pump" to.... well, OK, I really don't
> know what pump does; all I know is that I have to do
> it before ethernet'll work.
>
> My question is, what's the super-smooth way a real Linux
> jock would setup his/her startup scripts so that he/she
> would never have to worry about this? Or do I just suck it up?
>
> Cheers,
> Andy
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