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Re: NetCfg broken... Here's the problem/solution
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Michael K. Johnson)
Tue Nov 5 16:15:52 1996
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From: "Michael K. Johnson" <johnsonm@redhat.com>
In-reply-to: Your message of "Fri, 01 Nov 1996 09:10:34 EST."
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Date: Tue, 05 Nov 1996 16:11:42 -0500
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setera@VNET.IBM.COM writes:
>I made a mistake when running netcfg the first time
>by leaving one of the routing fields blank. This
>wrote a /etc/sysconfig/static-routes file that had
>a line missing one of the fields. When netcfg is run
>the next time, it pukes on this line.
Oops. It's on my bug list now.
>This brings me to a question... What should my routes
>look like for a PPP connection? I know my netmask and
>the host that I'm connecting to, but that doesn't quite
>fill out all of the routing fields. Is static routing
>required by PPP or is that negotiated during the
>connection?
Normally, you should just click the defaultroute option
in the Network page of the PPP interface edit screen.
michaelkjohnson
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