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From: deborah@gallifrey.microunity.com (Deborah Gronke Bennett)
Subject: Re: Losing Default Gateway
In-Reply-To: Jorge Gomez's message of Mon, 08 Apr 1996 17:59:57 -0700
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Date: Tue, 9 Apr 1996 23:04:13 GMT
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In article <3169B68D.6A8F@infux.mxl.cetys.mx> Jorge Gomez <goman@infux.mxl.cetys.mx> writes:


   I'm running FreeBSD 2.1.0 with a SMC EtherPower PCI card, but I often 
   loose my default gateway and have to add it manually:

   route add default my.gateway.ip.address 1

   If anyone can point me in the right direction to fix this I would 
   appreciate it.

I'm assuming you mean to run static routes. Are you still running
routed (which is the default after installation)? If so, routed
can remove that default route for you. I had this happen several
times before I tracked it down. Disable routed by setting the
routedflags=NO in /etc/sysconfig.
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Deborah Gronke Bennett 	(WD5HJH) 	kernel and device drivers engineer
deborah@microunity.com			(408)-734-8100
MicroUnity Systems Eng., 255 Caspian Drive, Sunnyvale, CA 94089-1015 USA