[ale] Verizon broadband wireless card for Linux

[JK]

Jim Lynch wrote:

> jim at jim-laptop:~$ netstat -rn
> Kernel IP routing table
> Destination Gateway Genmask Flags MSS Window irtt Iface
> 66.174.168.64 0.0.0.0 255.255.255.255 UH 0 0 0 ppp0
> 192.168.2.0 0.0.0.0 255.255.255.0 U 0 0 0 eth0
> 169.254.0.0 0.0.0.0 255.255.0.0 U 0 0 0 eth0
> 0.0.0.0 192.168.2.1 0.0.0.0 UG 0 0 0 eth0


Your default route is going out eth0, not ppp0. IIRC there
is an option to pppd to make it install a PPP link as the
default route when the link comes up, but I don't remember
the details.

You might try as a quick test:

   ip route del default
   ip route add default via 66.174.168.84 dev ppp0

(I'm not in front of a Linux box at the moment, so I might
not have that right.)  If this is the problem, you should
be able to ping things out in the world after setting the
default route to go out ppp0.  I bet you can ping 66.174.168.64
even without changing the route.

-- JK

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