On Thu, May 15, 2008 at 5:05 PM, Douglas A. Tutty <dtutty@porchlight.ca> wrote:
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> On Thu, May 15, 2008 at 01:20:02PM +0300, Denis Doroshenko wrote:
>
>> that's it. but when i run ppp and issue "dial mobile" it connects and
>> adds a default route:
>>
>> $ netstat -rnf inet
>> Routing tables
>>
>> Internet:
>> Destination        Gateway            Flags   Refs      Use   Mtu  Prio Iface
>> default            212.47.101.26      UH         0        0     -     4 tun0
>> default            10.19.255.126      UGS        1       12     -     4 ath0
>> ...
>>
>> why does it do that? manual and google say that it would do that in
>> case appropriate ppp.conf section included something like:
>>
>> add default HISADDR
>>
>> but in my case i don't want ppp to add a default route! not that there
>> is no ppp.linkup and ppp.linkdown as well. this route is also tough
>> enough to remove:
>>
>> # route delete default 212.47.101.26
>> route: writing to routing socket: No such process
>> delete net default: gateway 212.47.101.26: not in table
>> #
>>
>> may be somebody has seen this before and knows how to say to ppp to
>> stay away from the routing table?
>
> Try adding the nodefaultroute option.  I agree that it shouldn't happen
> if you don't specify the defaultroute option.

are you sure you're talking about ppp(8) and not pppd(8). AFAIK,
nodefaultroute is an option of pppd(8).