Re: Well I managed to connect to the internet!

From: Michael Heiming (michael+USENET_at_www.heiming.de)
Date: 01/10/04 

Date: Sat, 10 Jan 2004 10:24:53 +0100

In comp.os.linux.misc Alan Connor <zzzzzz@xxx.yyy> wrote:
> On Fri, 09 Jan 2004 23:40:42 -0500, Iguanaman <iggyman25@hotmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > Many thanks, I managed to connect to the internet using a pppd line
> > like this:
> > /usr/sbin/pppd /dev/ttyS1 115200 debug user dwlee connect
> > "/usr/sbin/chat -v '' ATDT5472107 CONNECT''"
> >
> > The only problem is that it does not set the default route
> > automatically, so I have to enter this line to make the internet
> > scautly work:
> >
> > route add default ppp0
[..]

> Why don't you just put all that in a script?

While this should of course work, why not just read the fine
manual 'man pppd' and add 'defaultroute' to your options file? 

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Michael Heiming
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