Re: default route with PPP

[Evan Harris <spanner@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Carl

have you tried associating the default routes with a specific interface ?

I seem to remember having the same problem when adding an internet 
connection and bound each of the default routes I needed to a specific 
interface.

Sorry I can't remember the parameters that I added but maybe this will 
point you in the right direction.

Hope this helps

Regards
Evan Harris

>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

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