On Thu, 19 Sep 2002, Manuel Bouyer wrote:

> On Thu, Sep 19, 2002 at 01:54:39AM -0500, Richard Rauch wrote:
> > After some frustration, I gave up trying to use mouse-pppoe under NetBSD
> > 1.6 (at least for now).  I could get it up to a point where it would
 [...]
> > I'm also suffering a secondary problem, even with pppoe.  After piecing my
 [...]
> > route *to* the pppoe's IP number goes *through* my ISP and back to me.
 [...]
> You probably need to add a route to lo0 for this.
> Maybe something like:
> route add -host <your IP address> 127.0.0.1 -interface

Ah!  This fixed it.

I assume that I can this to the /etc/ifconfig.pppoe0 file, using the
appropriate address from 0.0.0.0 and 0.0.0.1 (as was used for the
defaultroute setting, per pppoe(4)).  If so, perhaps it should be
mentioned in the man-page?


Well, this is good news.  It means that I am essentially done fiddling
with my gateway and can behead it.  (^&  (Of my systems, the gateway was
the least critical and easiest to revert.  My next goal is to fiddle with
custom kernels to see if I can get around the problem with my laptop's
ethernet under 1.6.  If all goes well, the laptop will be upgrading RSN.
(^&)


Thanks!


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