ppp problems with routing

[Mike Tancsa]

On Mon, 28 Mar 2005 19:13:47 -0500, in sentex.lists.freebsd.questions
you wrote:

>Hello I use freeBSD 4.11 with pppoe.
>I used almost default ppp.conf (as in freebsd handbook) for dynamic ip. 
>my config is here http://block111.servehttp.com/ppp.conf
>Twice a day I restart ppp from cron with `killall -INT ppp` and if the 
>new connection default gateway is different then the old default route 
>isn't removed, e.g. after ppp restart I have this:
>ifconfig ->
>	...
>         inet 66.11.172.181 --> 66.11.165.1 netmask 0xffffffff
>	inet 66.11.180.20 --> 66.11.190.1 netmask 0xffffffff
>
>before I had
>inet 66.11.172.181 --> 66.11.165.1 netmask 0xffffffff
>only, but after I sent INT to ppp the new ip has a different dafault 
>gateway and the old one isn't removed. Should the old default route/ip 
>be removed or not? In my case the old ip becomes invalid.

Hi,
	If you add

disable iface-alias

does it fix the problem ?  Also, why do you need to kill / restart
ppp?

	---Mike

--------------------------------------------------------
Mike Tancsa, Sentex communications http://www.sentex.net
Providing Internet Access since 1994
mike at sentex.net, (http://www.tancsa.com)