changing gatewaydev on notebook

[Derek Atkins]

Well, you could always change your PPP options to include
'defaultroute'...  And then leave your GATEWAYDEV at eth0.
Or even remove it if you use DHCP.

-derek

Ron Peterson <rpeterson at wallacefloyd.com> writes:

> Derek Atkins wrote:
> > 
> > You could try putting the GATEWAY into your ifcfg-* file...  Indeed, I
> > don't think that technically you need a GATEWAYDEV, and if you do I
> > think you can also put that in the ifcfg-* file..
> 
> kppp requires GATEWAYDEV be set to the ppp interface.  I tried just
> leaving it there (on ppp0), but it needs to be set to eth0 when I'm on
> my LAN to connect outside the office.
> 
> I have a Linksys 10/100+modem PCMCIA card.  Since both interfaces reside
> on the same card, I can't just check whether the card is present or not.
> 
> Could I export GATEWAY & GATEWAYDEV in ifup-ppp, and revert in
> ifdown-ppp?  I'm not as familiar as I should be with how the various
> scripts in /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts operate.  :(
> 
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