Bug 75648

Summary: Default route not being propely set with ppp interfaces
Product: [Retired] Red Hat Linux Reporter: Joel Barrios <jbarrios>
Component: initscriptsAssignee: Bill Nottingham <notting>
Status: CLOSED DEFERRED QA Contact: Brock Organ <borgan>
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Version: 8.0CC: maine, mike.collins, rvokal
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Description Joel Barrios 2002-10-10 16:58:59 UTC 
Description of Problem:

Default route not being properly stablished while activating a ppp interface

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
initscripts-6.95-1

How Reproducible:

Every time a ppp interface is activated.

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Create an ppp interface
2. activate the ppp0 interface created
3. It does not set properly the defauilt route.

Actual Results:


Expected Results:


Additional Information:

Afeter activating ppp0 interface:
# route -n
Kernel IP routing table
Destination     Gateway         Genmask         Flags Metric Ref    Use Iface
200.39.227.7    0.0.0.0         255.255.255.255 UH    0      0        0 ppp0
192.168.3.0     0.0.0.0         255.255.255.0   U     0      0        0 eth0
192.168.2.0     0.0.0.0         255.255.255.0   U     0      0        0 eth0
192.168.1.0     0.0.0.0         255.255.255.0   U     0      0        0 eth0
10.0.0.0        0.0.0.0         255.255.0.0     U     0      0        0 eth0
127.0.0.0       0.0.0.0         255.0.0.0       U     0      0        0 lo
0.0.0.0         192.168.1.254   0.0.0.0         UG    1      0        0 eth0
0.0.0.0         192.168.1.254   0.0.0.0         UG    1      0        0 eth0
0.0.0.0         192.168.1.254   0.0.0.0         UG    1      0        0 eth0

I had to execute route add -net 0.0.0.0 netmask 0.0.0.0 gw 200.39.227.7 have my
ppp0 interface working properly:

# route -n
Kernel IP routing table
Destination     Gateway         Genmask         Flags Metric Ref    Use Iface
200.39.227.7    0.0.0.0         255.255.255.255 UH    0      0        0 ppp0
192.168.3.0     0.0.0.0         255.255.255.0   U     0      0        0 eth0
192.168.2.0     0.0.0.0         255.255.255.0   U     0      0        0 eth0
192.168.1.0     0.0.0.0         255.255.255.0   U     0      0        0 eth0
10.0.0.0        0.0.0.0         255.255.0.0     U     0      0        0 eth0
127.0.0.0       0.0.0.0         255.0.0.0       U     0      0        0 lo
0.0.0.0         200.39.227.7    0.0.0.0         UG    0      0        0 ppp0
0.0.0.0         192.168.1.254   0.0.0.0         UG    1      0        0 eth0
0.0.0.0         192.168.1.254   0.0.0.0         UG    1      0        0 eth0
0.0.0.0         192.168.1.254   0.0.0.0         UG    1      0        0 eth0
Comment 1 Bill Nottingham 2005-09-29 20:20:13 UTC 
Closing bugs on older, no longer supported, releases. Apologies for any lack of
response.

If this persists on a current release, such as Fedora Core 4, please open a new bug.