Paul . L . Snyder on Wed, 28 Aug 2002 17:00:06 +0200


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Re: [PLUG] Routing problem.


On 28 August, 2002, "Naresh" <nganta@myrealbox.com> wrote:

> Something is always happening to my default route. After my system is
> running for a while, it seems to loose the default route. I have to
> manually do 'route add default eth0' and everything seems to work. Any
> reason why this would happen? I am using Debian (Sarge), with 2.4.19+xfs.

Are you using DHCP, and if so, is the DHCP server providing a gateway
address to your box?  If you're getting a DHCP address but adding the
default route in manually, that might explain its disappearance.

pls

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