>What interface does your `static default route' point to?  If it
>points to anything other than ppp0, then trying to send a packet to
>any host while the PPP route is not present will cause a route through
>the default route (and its associated interface) to be cached.

The point is that the pppd *was* up, and funcionting.  All packets to
class B and C networks went through, but packets to the two class A
hosts I tried failed until I removed the original default route.

The original default route was the loopback.  I was using the
"defaultroute" option on pppd, and it was working for class B and C
destinations.

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