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From: evanh@sco.COM (Evan Hunt)
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Subject: Re: ppp over modem - route problem
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Don't blame me, I voted for =?iso-8859-1?Q?J=FCrgen?= Schmied <schmied@isis.wu-wien.ac.at>.
>A normal user should be able to establish the connection to another
>computer. But a normal user don't have the permission to
>change the routing table and a rout entry add in the file
>"/usr/internet/etc/sco_ip/routes" brings up the message "network not
>reachable"
>at boot-time.

You didn't say whether you were using SCO PPP or MST PPP, or what
release.  But in MST PPP and recent versions of SCO PPP, you can
set up a script that will be executed when the PPP connection is
activated.  For SCO PPP, check the man page for ppphosts, and
look for "sh_hook".  For MST PPP, it should be taken care of for
you automatically by the dialout and exec.dialout scripts, if
you set up the connection with the Internet Manager.

Basically, in either case, what you want is to have a "placeholder"
address for the remote side of the PPP connection--I use 127.0.0.3.
Set that to be your default route, and when the connection is
activated, the script will automatically delete that route and add
a new one with the new IP address.

-- 
                  Evan Hunt   -   evanh at sco dot com

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