On Sunday, January 19, 2003 10:41 AM, Raphael Mankin wrote:
You have to tinker with your routing tables. ... define your ethernet routes as having a cost of 2 (or more). When you create the ppp connection do a 'route' command that adds it with a cost of 1. This may be for specific hosts or a default, depending on
what
you want.
I used to have a similar situation when most of my traffic was ethernet, but Usenet downloads had to go over a modem.
Thanks for sharing your experience Raphael.
I have noticed that when I boot the machine without the ethernet cable attached kppp works as expected and I can access the internet via my modem without problems. It is only once my machine has experienced a much faster route to the internet via my ethernet port that it refuses to send packets through the much slower modem. I think you may have therefore hit the nail right on the head by suggesting I look at modifying the costs of the two routes. I think your "case 2.1" covers my situation (i.e. I use the fast ethernet route to the internet all the time except when I need to temporarily access an alternative ISP for a few minutes (such as to send this email) during which time I want all internet traffic to be temporarily routed out via the modem to this secondary ISP). Thanks again for sharing this tip Raphael.
Could anyone recommend any simple guide texts about modifying routing tables suitable for a Linux beginner like myself?
Thanks,
Ian.