Firstly I want to thank everyone that was invilved in producing 1.3 - the
isapnp stuff clears up some major headaches  and it's nice to be able to
run the same os on a Risc PC, SS1 and a 486.

The 486 in question is inteded to act as a gateway via a ppp dialup and
IPNAT to the 'net for the rest of the boxes here, and although ppp connects,
it refuses to run with the ethernet interface ifconfig'd up at the same
time:

[ne0 and ne2 are the same card - found with both the isa and isapnp, since
this script i've compiled a custom kernel and reconfig'd the card - it now
only appears on ne0 - i still get the default route problem tho.]

Script started on Sat Feb  7 13:52:47 1998
fish# netstat -rn
Routing tables

Internet:
Destination        Gateway            Flags     Refs     Use    Mtu  Interface
10/24              link#2             UC          0        0      -  ne2
10.0.0.40          00:00:a4:10:3a:b0  UHL         0       18      -  ne2
10.0.0.41          00:20:18:70:b5:13  UHL         0       24      -  lo0
10.0.0.255         link#2             UHL         1       41      -  ne2
127.0.0.1          127.0.0.1          UH          1       16      -  lo0
fish# ./pppd.connect
[ppp connects]
fish# netstat -rn
Routing tables

Internet:
Destination        Gateway            Flags     Refs     Use    Mtu  Interface
default            158.43.121.20      UG          0        1      -  ppp0
10/24              link#2             UC          0        0      -  ne2
10.0.0.40          00:00:a4:10:3a:b0  UHL         0        9      -  ne2
10.0.0.41          00:20:18:70:b5:13  UHL         0       24      -  lo0
10.0.0.255         link#2             UHL         1       40      -  ne2
127.0.0.1          127.0.0.1          UH          1       16      -  lo0
158.43.121.20      193.130.251.89     UH          1        0      -  ppp0

[other protocols snipped]
fish# traceroute 194.154.62.72
traceroute: Warning: Multiple interfaces found; using 10.0.0.41 @ ne2
traceroute to 194.154.62.72 (194.154.62.72), 30 hops max, 40 byte packets
 1  *^C
fish# ifconfig -a
ne0: flags=8822<BROADCAST,NOTRAILERS,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> mtu 1500
        address: 00:20:18:70:b5:13
        media: manual
ne2: flags=8863<UP,BROADCAST,NOTRAILERS,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> mtu 1500
        address: 00:20:18:70:b5:13
        media: manual
        inet 10.0.0.41 netmask 0xffffff00 broadcast 10.0.0.255
lo0: flags=8009<UP,LOOPBACK,MULTICAST> mtu 32976
        inet 127.0.0.1 netmask 0xff000000 
ppp0: flags=8051<UP,POINTOPOINT,RUNNING,MULTICAST> mtu 1500
        inet 193.130.251.89 --> 158.43.121.20 netmask 0xffffff00 
ppp1: flags=8010<POINTOPOINT,MULTICAST> mtu 1500
[...]
fish# ifconfig ne2 down
fish# !net
netstat -rn
Routing tables

Internet:
Destination        Gateway            Flags     Refs     Use    Mtu  Interface
default            158.43.121.20      UG          0        3      -  ppp0
10/24              link#2             UC          0        0      -  ne2
10.0.0.40          00:00:a4:10:3a:b0  UHL         0        9      -  ne2
10.0.0.41          00:20:18:70:b5:13  UHL         0       24      -  lo0
10.0.0.255         link#2             UHL         1       40      -  ne2
127.0.0.1          127.0.0.1          UH          1       16      -  lo0
158.43.121.20      193.130.251.89     UH          1        0      -  ppp0
[...]
fish# !tra
traceroute 194.154.62.72
traceroute to 194.154.62.72 (194.154.62.72), 30 hops max, 40 byte packets
 1  vp20.lon.dial.pipex.net (158.43.121.20)  266.072 ms  257.409 ms  257.063 ms
 2  fddi2-0.gw2.msn.pipex.net (158.43.121.254)  264.750 ms  263.956 ms  260.577 ms
 3  fddi5-0-0.cr1.doc.london.pipex.net (158.43.198.1)  261.007 ms  252.026 ms  257.443 ms
 4  fddi0-0-0.br2.doc.london.pipex.net (158.43.195.4)  263.457 ms  253.302 ms  255.202 ms
 5  linx-gw.vbc.net (194.68.130.55)  262.392 ms  409.523 ms  280.937 ms
 6  gate1.uk0.vbc.net (194.207.0.32)  263.474 ms  257.617 ms  272.347 ms
 7  ivision-gw.uk0.vbc.net (194.207.1.2)  273.312 ms  354.574 ms  319.170 ms
 8  * xfiles.ivision.co.uk (195.50.91.3)  264.758 ms  270.087 ms
 9  stingray.ivision.co.uk (195.50.91.40)  284.327 ms  285.830 ms *
fish#

so even tho the routing tables point the default route out of the ppp
connection the packets try to go out of the ethernet...

I just don't understand why it's doing this - here's the ppp connect script

#!/bin/sh
/usr/sbin/pppd /dev/modem 19200 connect '/usr/sbin/chat -v "" "" "" "ATZ" "OK" "12345678990" "CONNECT" "" "ogin:" "zzzz" "assword:" "xxxxx" "rotocol:" "ppp"' debug defaultroute



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