[ILUG-BOM] Tata Indicom CDMA USB Modem not working with GNU/Linux

[km]

On 7/2/08, Rony <gnulinuxist at gmail.com> wrote:
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> Could you give us a summary of your network interfaces and how they are
>  connected?
>
>
>  --
>  Regards,
>
>  Rony.
>

After everything done and working, route -n gives me the following:

kamal at kMax:~$ route -n
Kernel IP routing table
Destination     Gateway         Genmask         Flags Metric Ref    Use Iface
172.23.119.14   0.0.0.0         255.255.255.255 UH    0      0        0 ppp0
0.0.0.0         0.0.0.0         0.0.0.0         U     0      0        0 ppp0

and the contents of interfaces file are as follows; which i guess is really
crappy, but still working. any clues on cleaning it up? :P
						---------
  GNU nano 2.0.6                              File: /etc/network/interfaces

auto lo
iface lo inet loopback
address 127.0.0.1
netmask 255.0.0.0


iface dsl-provider inet ppp
pre-up /sbin/ifconfig eth0 up # line maintained by pppoeconf
provider dsl-provider

auto eth0
iface eth0 inet static
address 10.10.80.1
netmask 255.0.0.0
gateway
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Address 10.10.80.1 < this is the addr i chose on LAN, which i don't
use any more. Is it safe to remove?
Also, is it safe to comment out the `provider` line? i am not using that
dsl-provider any more.

-- 
Regards
kamal morjal