default route with PPP

I am developing some code for a client.  Basically the code will attempt to
FTP to a site on the internet over the company's existing T1.  I ping the
FTP server first to see if the route is there.  If I can not get a return on
my ping I want to start a PPP dial up connection to an ISP, and then do the
FTP over the dial up line.

All the pieces work fine, except one.  In my PPP profile I have set that the
dial up connection gets assigned the default route.  If I currently have a
default route set up in my routing table, the PPP connection will not work,
it says there is already a default route set up.  If I remove the default
route on the AS400, the PPP connection works fine and the data is routed
over the dial up to the internet.  All of my customer's systems already have
a default route set up on their AS400 pointing to the local router so the
data is moved over their WAN.  The only way I see to solve this problem is
to programmatically remove the default route in the routing table, start my
PTP PPP connection, do my FTP, end the PPP connection and then
programmatically add the default route entry back to the AS400.  This seems
less than elegant.  Any better ideas?
cjg


Carl J. Galgano
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