[Pkg-utopia-maintainers] Bug#499616: Bug#499616: pppoe can't replace default route when NetworkManager package is installed

[Michael Biebl]

Xiaopan Zhang wrote:
> Package: network-manager
> Version: 0.6.0
> 
> 
> With the following /etc/network/interface
> 
> ########################################
> # This file describes the network interfaces available on your system
> # and how to activate them. For more information, see interfaces(5).
> 
> # The loopback network interface
> auto lo
> iface lo inet loopback
> 
> # The primary network interface
> allow-hotplug eth0
> 
> iface eth0 inet static
> address 192.168.0.1
> netmask 255.255.255.0
> 
> auto eth0
> ########################################
> 
> 
> There will always be a default route in my route table, so we I use pppoe to
> connect to my ISP, although I specify the option
> defaultroute
> 
> however, the pppd will complain:
> Can not replacing existing default route 192.168....

This looks more like the default route is set by ifupdown and not
network-manager. Could you provide the routing table list:
route -n

Do you still have the problem, if you disable/uninstall network-manager?

> So I can't connect to my ISP.  Actually, I believe network-manage brings
> more problem than it solves  ( I still remember the famous firefox-3.0 can't
> work with network-manager), Please consider to remove this package from
> default installation.

Feel free to uninstall network-manager, if you don't need/want it.


Michael
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