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Manish Jain <bourne.identity@hotmail.com> writes:

> Then I ran (as root):
> service netif restart
> service routing restart
>
> At this point, I get my network back  : - )
>
> What would this mean ? Is this a software problem, or some of my hardware has started failing ?

Have you tried rebooting whatever device is on the other end of the
cable plugged into re0? Switch, router, whatever...