Hello
I connect to internet using vpn (pptp). Unfortunately I can't make my routes in order to connect using Linux. My ISP gives in my opinion very strange IP addresses. Here is the situation.

LAN settings
my IP 172.16.90.129
GW 172.16.90.1

VPN settings
IP to connect 172.16.2.21
and the problems start here

when I connect to VPN server I receive following addressed
my IP 172.16.126.138
remote IP 172.16.2.21

I make the followin
route del default - in order to change the default gw 172.16.90.1
route add default gw 172.16.2.21 dev ppp0 - to add default gw through VPN server
but there is no internet

Here is the routing table under windows
I also tried under linux to add 172.16.126.138 but nothing happens

Please suggest

so essentially you have unfortunately similar ip addresses? you would typically use a tunnelled interface as your default gatewy, e.g. tun0, but you seem to be trying to use the remote perr as the ip next hop, which it isn't. can you show us the real output of ifconfig and route -n when you're connected please?

This is the ifconfig

eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:0B:6A:C5:CA:3B
inet addr:172.16.90.129 Bcast:172.16.90.255 Mask:255.255.255.0
inet6 addr: fe80::20b:6aff:fec5:ca3b/64 Scope:Link
UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:1229 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:95 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
RX bytes:111418 (108.8 KiB) TX bytes:9505 (9.2 KiB)
Interrupt:19 Base address:0x4d00

lo Link encap:Local Loopback
inet addr:127.0.0.1 Mask:255.0.0.0
inet6 addr: ::1/128 Scope:Host
UP LOOPBACK RUNNING MTU:16436 Metric:1
RX packets:2 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:2 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
RX bytes:100 (100.0 b) TX bytes:100 (100.0 b)

ppp0 Link encap:Point-to-Point Protocol
inet addr:172.16.126.138 P-t-P:172.16.2.21 Mask:255.255.255.255
UP POINTOPOINT RUNNING NOARP MULTICAST MTU:1490 Metric:1
RX packets:7 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:1130145 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:3
RX bytes:146 (146.0 b) TX bytes:403760018 (385.0 MiB)


and this is route -n

Kernel IP routing table
Destination Gateway Genmask Flags Metric Ref Use Iface
172.16.2.21 0.0.0.0 255.255.255.255 UH 0 0 0 ppp0
172.16.90.0 0.0.0.0 255.255.255.0 U 0 0 0 eth0
0.0.0.0 172.16.90.1 0.0.0.0 UG 0 0 0 eth0

thank you

so where's the VPN? i see an ethernet lan, and a ppp connection. no vpn there at all... can you ping the ppp0 gateway?

that's the VPN - it's pptp and raises ppp0 interface.
I can't ping peer ppp 172.16.2.21 when ppp connection is established.