[plug] vpn breaks home network

[Brad Campbell]

Rob Dunne wrote:
> Hi William
> 
> William Kenworthy wrote:
>> have you checked the obvious?
>>
>> firewall? - cipsec0 may only be there as you start the vpn and you may
>> need to restart the firewall once the vpn has connected.
> 
> there is no firewall on either of the machines. There may be something 
> on the modem, but as far as I can see there isnt. I havn't set any up (I 
> wouldnt know how)
> 
>> Another gotcha is the cisco vpn sometimes removes all local routes, as
>> it expects everything to go via the vpn - what does "route -n" say?
> 
> before starting the VPN it says
> plastic: route -n
> Destination     Gateway         Genmask         Flags Metric Ref    Use 
> Iface
> 192.168.1.0     0.0.0.0         255.255.255.0   U     0      0        0 
> eth0
> 
> 0.0.0.0         192.168.1.254   0.0.0.0         UG    0      0        0 
> eth0
> 
> after starting the VPN it says
> route -n
> Destination     Gateway         Genmask         Flags Metric Ref    Use 
> Iface
> 
> 150.229.98.10   192.168.1.254   255.255.255.255 UGH   0      0        0 
> eth0
> 
> 130.155.80.0    0.0.0.0         255.255.255.0   U     0      0        0 
> cipsec0
> 
> 0.0.0.0         130.155.80.17   0.0.0.0         UG    0      0        0 
> cipsec0
> 

Try

route del default gw cipsec0
route add default gw 192.168.1.254


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