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Date:      Mon, 25 Nov 2002 11:17:23 -0300 (ART)
From:      Fernando Gleiser <fgleiser@cactus.fi.uba.ar>
To:        John Jennings <jljennin@hawaii.edu>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: PPP and Alcatel HomeTouch
Message-ID:  <20021125111353.Q39343-100000@cactus.fi.uba.ar>
In-Reply-To: <000701c2946b$949501c0$337769a8@hawaii.edu>

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On Mon, 25 Nov 2002, John Jennings wrote:

> To whom it may concern:
[snip]

> We are certain our ISP uses PAP for authenticating.  We do the following to
> connect:
>
> ppp -ddial adsl
>
> We receive the following error:
>
> Add Route:  failed:  default exists

Because the default route already exists. Add a 'route delete default' in
ppp.linkdown.

>
> More detail about the machine:  There is a NIC with IP address 192.168.1.3,
> which is NOT connected to anything.
>
> We are able to ping our ISP's gateway.  And we have an IP address which has
> been assigned to us by the ISP.  But we cannot ping or access addresses
> outside our ISP.
>

It's a routing problem. What does a 'netstat -nr' show? Try deleting the
default route and then add a new default route with the other side of the
PPP link as the gateway.


			Fer


> We have no idea the problem.  Any help is greatly appreciated.  We thank you
> in advance.
>
> J
>
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