kppp does not assign proper default gateway

Binary package hint: kppp

After a PPP connection is established, my prior default gateway is still active. Therefore, it's impossible to use the newly established PPP connection before one does a:
$ sudo route del default gw nnn.nnn.nnn.nnn
$ sudo route add default gw zzz.zzz.zzz.zzz

where zzz.zzz.zzz.zzz is the P-t-P IP address reported by
$sudo /sbin/ifconfig ppp0

kppp, since it is run as root anyway, and it provides the option to "assign the default route to this gateway", should do just that.

I have just observer the same behaviour so can confirm.

I am using Ubuntu edgy 6.10 with kubuntu-desktop added and all updates applied as of this writing.

My experience is as reported by Alexandros Papadopoulos but in addition if I first remove the default gateway (in this case to eth0) then the new ppp gateway is established correctly by kppp.

In other words is works fine if there is not an existing gateway.

I hope this helps.

Same here:
with kubuntu 6.10 failed to connects until I have disabled my network interface because default gateway was always the one set over there -> 192.168.1.1

Of course I have enabled option to set default gateway in KPPP but doesn't work :(

The same problem here. The strange thing is that the connection is working under konsole, so it should detect the correct gateway. But konqueror,kmail,kopete doesn't works. But if i try to launch konqueror as root from konsole with "kdesu konqueror" everithing works fine.

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.

Have a same issue on kubuntu-7.04-desktop-i386
The connection was established, but konqueror,kmail, etc doesn't works. Updates works, chimera2 works, can ping, etc from console.

guys, this is a serious bug.
You cant send Mails/access the Internet wirh Konqueror using a ppp connection, and it still doesn't work on hardy.

Please fix this/ rate it higher.
Or at least say "wontfix".

Hi there!

Thanks for reporting this bug! Your bug seems to be a problem with the KDE program itself, and not with our KDE packages. But don't worry! This issue is being tracked by the KDE developers at:http://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=145027
Once fixed in KDE, it will be included in Kubuntu once the KDE version the fix is in in reaches Kubuntu.

Thanks!