Can anyone explain why the defaultroute option in pppd doesn't work on some
configurations.  Is it simply a matter of running gated?

Also, I've written a Perl script (invoked from the 'ppp-up' script) that
performs a 'netstat -rn' to obtain the IP numbers of the server and my
assigned IP, so that the script can run the 'route add default xxx' command
as well as a ipnat script.  My questions is:  Is there a more efficient way
of getting those IP number?

Thanks
Steve