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Date: Fri, 19 Sep 1997 01:28:39 -0400 (EDT)
From: Dr Freebsd <hometeam@techpower.net>
To: David Goddard <d.goddard@ic.ac.uk>
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Subject: Re: ppp -auto problems and boot-time error messages
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Firstly, the odd messages are: 
                                                                                
  writing to routing socket: File exists
  add net default: gateway 155.198.8.0: File exists
 


This is just telling you the default route is set is all.
If you set this gateway in your rc.conf you will get host unreachable at
boot time.