Re: NM using Option card

[Markus Becker <mab comnets uni-bremen de>]

On Fri, 8 Feb 2008, Markus Becker wrote:

> I looked at it as well today and they are just informing the user about
> the bad DNS IP address, but not doing anything.

Hi Dan,

I have patched nm-pppd-plugin.c to use static DNS addresses, if it gets a 
bogus 10.11.12.13 DNS address. The patch however has the static address 
hardcoded. Is it possible to enable the pppd-plugin get static DNS 
addresses from the gconf settings? Are there already implementations 
for static DNS for NM? Should one enter supersede entries in 
dhclient.conf? What would be your preferences there?

Best regards,
Markus

> > > > > The 10.64.64.64 default peer address is also no problem - the network just
> > > > > does not return a peer address, so pppd uses this default. It does not matter,
> > > > > as long as your default route points to the ppp interface, it just works.
> > > > > At least for me, with a quite some hardware and providers that have tested.
> > > >
> > > > Not really; I needed a valid peer address for Sprint here in the US
> > > > otherwise my packets would go nowhere.  Previously, the NM
> > > > implementation would just assign the local address as the peer address,
> > > > and that simply didn't work.  I can't imagine how assigning the random
> > > > 10.64.64.6x address would work any better?
> > >
> > > If the peer does not supply a peer address it will basically go like
> > >
> > >     route add default dev ppp0
> > >
> > > As long as the other end takes all traffic and routes it, you don't
> > > need a default gateway set up on your machine.
> > >
> > > root susi:~# ifconfig modemB
> > > modemB    Link encap:Point-to-Point Protocol
> > >           inet addr:10.129.77.52  P-t-P:10.64.64.64  Mask:255.255.255.255
> > >           UP POINTOPOINT RUNNING NOARP MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
> > >           RX packets:4 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
> > >           TX packets:7 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
> > >           collisions:0 txqueuelen:3
> > >           RX bytes:58 (58.0 b)  TX bytes:327 (327.0 b)
> > >
> > > root susi:~# route -n
> > > Kernel IP routing table
> > > Destination     Gateway         Genmask         Flags Metric Ref    Use Iface
> > > 10.64.64.64     0.0.0.0         255.255.255.255 UH    0      0        0 modemB
> > > 127.0.0.0       0.0.0.0         255.0.0.0       U     0      0        0 lo
> > > 0.0.0.0         0.0.0.0         0.0.0.0         U     0      0        0 modemB
> > >
> > > and it works just fine. (Yes, ifconfig and route are lame and real men use ip
> > > for that today... :-)
> > >
> > > This does not mean that this will work for all configurations, but for those
> > > i encountered here in europe, it worked just fine.
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