Subject: Re: NetBSD 1.6: Routing (pppoe)
To: Richard Rauch <rauch@rice.edu>
From: Manuel Bouyer <bouyer@antioche.eu.org>
List: netbsd-help
Date: 09/19/2002 23:14:04
On Thu, Sep 19, 2002 at 02:49:49PM -0500, Richard Rauch wrote:
> On Thu, 19 Sep 2002, Manuel Bouyer wrote:
> 
> > On Thu, Sep 19, 2002 at 01:54:39AM -0500, Richard Rauch wrote:
> > > After some frustration, I gave up trying to use mouse-pppoe under NetBSD
> > > 1.6 (at least for now).  I could get it up to a point where it would
>  [...]
> > > I'm also suffering a secondary problem, even with pppoe.  After piecing my
>  [...]
> > > route *to* the pppoe's IP number goes *through* my ISP and back to me.
>  [...]
> > You probably need to add a route to lo0 for this.
> > Maybe something like:
> > route add -host <your IP address> 127.0.0.1 -interface
> 
> Ah!  This fixed it.
> 
> I assume that I can this to the /etc/ifconfig.pppoe0 file, using the
> appropriate address from 0.0.0.0 and 0.0.0.1 (as was used for the
> defaultroute setting, per pppoe(4)).  If so, perhaps it should be
> mentioned in the man-page?

I don't know if this will work, just try it !
If it doesn't you can probably run it though ifwatchd(8)

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Manuel Bouyer <bouyer@antioche.eu.org>
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