Switching to ppp0

[PeEllAvaj]

I have two internet connections established on my computer, one on eth1 (normal wired with DHCP), and one on ppp0 (broadband card connection created with wvdial).

Ifconfig is reporting that I have IP and DNS and that everything is working, but I don't know how to get my computer to actually use the ppp0 connection.

I have tried unplugging eth1 but then I just lose internet. Is there some type of switch I am supposed to trigger? I have tried restarting /etc/init.d/networking and I here is the output of "route" (stars added for privacy):
Kernel IP routing table
Destination Gateway Genmask Flags Metric Ref Use Iface
**.**.**.** * 255.255.255.255 UH 0 0 0 ppp0
10.0.0.0 * 255.255.255.0 U 0 0 0 eth1
link-local * 255.255.0.0 U 1000 0 0 eth1
default assault.mortalp 0.0.0.0 UG 100 0 0 eth1

Thanks for any help!

[GeorgeVita]

Hi PeEllAvaj, just an idea:

as wvdial is the front-end of pppd I just looked at man pppd (parameters: defaultroute, replacedefaultroute)

defaultroute
Add a default route to the system routing tables, using the peer as the gateway, when
IPCP negotiation is successfully completed. This entry is removed when the PPP connec‐
tion is broken. This option is privileged if the nodefaultroute option has been speci‐
fied.

replacedefaultroute
This option is a flag to the defaultroute option. If defaultroute is set and this flag
is also set, pppd replaces an existing default route with the new default route.

My idea is to add defaultroute and replacedefaultroute within parameters of file /etc/ppp/peers/wvdial and then using it will set its 'route' as 'default'. (I did not checked this)

Below are the contents of 'default' /etc/ppp/peers/wvdial +new params:

name wvdial
noauth
usepeerdns
defaultroute
replacedefaultroute

Regards,
George

[PeEllAvaj]

Thanks! Adding those two lines to /etc/ppp/peers/wvdial worked perfectly!

defaultroute
replacedefaultroute