Re: "route add default" directive

Dances With Crows wrote:

Each time I boot my machine up, I have to issue "route add default
eth0" in order to be able to [do anything]. There is no router
involved, the box's NIC is directly connected to a cable modem.

Cablemodem, or DSL modem? The comments and "ppp" keyword in your file
say it's the latter.

It is actually a cable modem. AFAICS "pppoeconf" sets the default
provider name to "dsl-provider", and I didn't change it.

[snip]

Look at /etc/ppp/peers/dsl-provider . There should probably be a
"defaultroute" line in there that isn't commented out, unless your
machine's routing situation is more complex than you've indicated here.

No, it isn't. My "network" consists only of this very machine.
This is the content of /etc/ppp/peers/dsl-provider:

noipdefault
defaultroute
hide-password
noauth
persist
usepeerdns
plugin rp-pppoe.so eth0
user "xxx"

Joerg
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