Re: Airport and YDL


Subject: Re: Airport and YDL
From: Thomas Leonard (ike6116@mac.com)
Date: Mon Jul 23 2001 - 12:39:46 MDT


>
> Now, I don't have Airport on my machine, so I can't give you any details,
> so someone else will have to fill in those. however, it sounds like you
> are having the same trouble I had when I was trying to get ppp up and
> running.
>
> The machine dialed out and established a ppp connection, but the default
> network route was left as /dev/eth0, so when I fired up Netscape, etc... I
> got nothing since it was trying to send data over my ethernet port. My
> solution was to add the line
> route add -net default gw $5 $1
> to /etc/ppp/ip-up.local. ip-up.local is automatically run when the ppp
> connection was established, so this would get run. What this is doing is
> setting the default route out of my machine to be the domain (which is in
> $5) on the device in $1. I don't at the moment remember all of the
> variables that get passed to ip-up so I can't really advise you too much
> about it. However, from your description, it sounds like this is what is
> happening, your machine establishes the connection, it just doesn't use
> it.
>

Thank you, can you tell me just what you put into the terminal?

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