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Re: ip-up script not working

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From: ic
Date: Fri, 03 May 1996 00:00
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In article <4lg05j$vn8@gidora.kralizec.net.au> Carl Renneberg <renneber@tmx.mhs.oz.au> writes:
>From: Carl Renneberg <renneber@tmx.mhs.oz.au>
>Subject: ip-up script not working
>Date: 22 Apr 1996 13:04:51 GMT

>My home system runs ppp-2.2.0.c with a 1.2.13 kernel. ppp gets loaded as a
>module at boot time, and the kernel has IP forwarding compiled.

>I want to:

>    - dial up my home system from host 203.25.235.1 (at work), and login to an
>      account that starts up a ppp link;

>    - on my home system, add a network route (not default route) for
>      203.25.235.0 over the ppp interface.

>The first part I can do, no problem. To handle the second part, I put the
>following in /etc/ppp/ip-up, on my home system:

>case $5 in \
>203.25.235.?|203.25.235.??|203.25.235.???) \
>    route add -net 203.25.235.0 gw 203.25.235.1 netmask 255.255.255.0;; \
>esac
>exit 0

I set my routes up with the default route always pointing at ppp0 and  
the local network addresses pointing at eth0. 
I figure anything outside my home network will fail when ppp0 is down anyway.

One other thing  do you have #!/bin/sh  at the start of the ip-up script?

                                                                IanC
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From: ic@deakin.edu.au
Subject: Re: ip-up script not working
Date: 1996/05/03
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