I have a small network at home in which I use my Linux computer as a file server and a printer server using SAMBA. I also connect to the internet with this machine using KPPP. With Red Hat Linux 6.0 this worked well, but with Red Hat Linux 6.1 once I get my modem connected I get the following message: Nov 14 18:50:47 gator pppd[1529]: Connect: ppp1 <-->/dev/cua0 Nov 14 18:50:48 gator pppd[1529]: Remote message: ^@ Nov 14 18:50:50 gator pppd[1529]: not replacing existing default route to eth0 [10.8.11.2] Nov 14 18:50:50 gator pppd[1529]: local IP address 12.77.216.211 Nov 14 18:50:50 gator pppd[1529]: remote IP address 204.127.160.1 As soon as I saw this happening, I disconnected my network card. As soon as I did this and retried again, I was able to connect and surf the internet. Is there a way that I can keep my network card and network configuration and at the same time be able to surf the net using the dial-up connection? Thanks in advance for your help on this matter
Remove the default route for your internal network. You should only need one default route, and if your internal network does not provide a route to the internet, you shouldn't have a default route for it. In /etc/sysconfig/network, make sure you have GATEWAY= GATEWAYDEV= and that should fix it.
Hello I am new to Linux. Using RedHat 7.2. I have the same setup as described in this post and am having the same problem. I have a small home network with Samba, and a modem to dial into the Internet. I can connect fine with kppp but can't see anything on the Internet (except for the remote gateway). I have tried your resolution but that doesn't seem to work either. I have updated to the latest initscripts, ppp and pam packages using red hat network. I have also tried adding GATEWAY= and GATEWAYDEV= to the /etc/sysconfig/network file, with no success. I have a gateway set up to another machine that also dials to the Internet, so am able to browse the Internet via the network through that machine. However, I would also like to be able to use the dial-up as well. Here is the result of route -n before connecting using kppp: Kernel IP routing table Destination Gateway Genmask Flags Metric Ref Use Iface 192.168.0.0 0.0.0.0 255.255.255.0 U 0 0 0 eth0 127.0.0.0 0.0.0.0 255.0.0.0 U 0 0 0 lo 0.0.0.0 192.168.0.1 0.0.0.0 UG 0 0 0 eth0 and here is the result of route -n after connnecting using kppp: Kernel IP routing table Destination Gateway Genmask Flags Metric Ref Use Iface 203.167.253.60 0.0.0.0 255.255.255.255 UH 0 0 0 ppp0 192.168.0.0 0.0.0.0 255.255.255.0 U 0 0 0 eth0 127.0.0.0 0.0.0.0 255.0.0.0 U 0 0 0 lo 0.0.0.0 192.168.0.1 0.0.0.0 UG 0 0 0 eth0 Hope you can help me. thanks in advance Faizal