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From: wolfgang.mueller@uni-duesseldorf.de (Wolfgang R. Mueller)
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions
Subject: Re: losing default gateway
Date: Fri, 1 Jul 1994 06:28:37 GMT
Organization: Computing Centre, Heinrich-Heine-University, Duesseldorf, Germany
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Mail bounced, so here a public answer:

In article <2uq12a$c7f$1@recepsen.aa.msen.com> 
 gerry@msen.com (Gerry Kramer) writes:
>I am new to using BSDI software, I just received the version 1.1 of  BSD/
>386. I have installed it on an intel x series platform with an Intel ether 
>express 16 card for my network connection. I comes up just fine and finds 
>the default gateway to my remote servers. After about 5 minutes or so 
>if you try to do an ftp it will fail. netstat shows that there is no longer 
>a default gateway connection. I can re-add the route manually and it will 
>work again. Any ideas why I continually loose the default gateway after a 
>restart?

A
man routed
might give you some clues on how it may have happened and on how to switch on
some tools to find out the originator of your problem (perhaps your gateway
doesn't provide a default route in its RIP updates, because it learns the
way into the wide world by another routing protocol, as e.g. is the case with
cisco routers).
Hope this helps,
Wolfgang R. Mueller <wolfgang.mueller@uni-duesseldorf.de>,
Computing Centre, Heinrich-Heine-University, Duesseldorf, Germany.