> I think "defaultroute" does something completely different.  It adds a
> default route over the ppp interface.   With the in-kernel pppoe, adding

Ah, I misunderstood.  Sorry.


> that route is up to the user - as it should be (just like for LAN
> interfaces).
>
> I'm talking about the loopback route so that, i.e., if you ping the IP of
> the pppoe0 interface it doesn't actually go out the PPPoE
> connection.

I seem to recall seeing that problem when I was on a dialup PPP account.
I don't remember what my solution was (I had a static IP, so I may have
just wired the route down, as I think you said you were doing).


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