add route but not default

Sten Daniel Sørsdal sten.daniel.sorsdal at wan.no
Tue Apr 15 01:16:40 PDT 2003


> Hi all,
> 
> I am setting up a wan ppp link to a remote place and wonder how to 
> (automagically) add a route when the link is up that is *not* the 
> default route?
> 
>From 'man ppp':

add[!] dest[/nn] [mask] [gateway]

For example:
add 10.0.0.0/24 192.168.0.1

I think you can add this in ppp.linkup under the correct group, but if that fails then it can go in ppp.conf

Add the '!' if the route already exists, as it then will perform a route change and not fail on route already existing.

- Sten


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