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From: arlie@news.thepoint.net (Arlie Davis)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Error : No route to host
Date: 3 Jul 1995 11:55:37 -0400
Organization: ThePoint - Kentuckiana's Internet Connection
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Message-ID: <3t93tp$c1h@dg.thepoint.net>
References: <cheema.804152153@nntp.msstate.edu>
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cheema@earth.sparco.com (Mubashir Cheema) writes:

>One thing that I noticed a few seconds ago was that after I reboot the 
>machine networking works fine for initial few minutes and then goes 
>kaput. 

Disable routed, or make sure your router is advertising the default route via
RIP.

What's happening is that routed is clearing your default route after 30 s.
Annoying, but true.

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