Comment 10 for bug 53877

I can confirm this under Feisty. I have an ethernet network at home, which normally connects via a modem router. The router IP is the default gateway. Recently the DSL connection was unavailable, and we had to use dialup. The connection was established (although pppd always crashed on the first connection attempt, and a second attempt had to be made, which always succeeded), but gateway problems prevented access to the internet.

I found two solutions: 'sudo route add default ppp0', which is very inconvenient, particularly as many of the users of the computer don't have admin access, and editing the file /etc/ppp/peers/kppp-options to include the lines "defaultroute" and "replacedefaultroute". Prior to this edit, the file contained only the line "noauth". In my opinion, these options should probably be included by default.