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To: Pedro A M Vazquez <vazquez@iqm.unicamp.br>
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Subject: Re: le0 problems 
In-reply-to: Your message of "Thu, 19 Jan 1995 18:05:49 -0200."
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Date: Thu, 19 Jan 1995 18:09:24 -0700
From: Steve Passe <fbsd@clem.systemsix.com>
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Hello,

> 	After rebooting the machines they work fine for 1-2 minutes and
> then the default gateway is lost and after that the interface does not
> work anymore and ifconfig le0 shows the OACTIVE flag is on. No "le0

I have this problem on 1.1.5.1 as well as a BSDI box.  I just
reset the default route ("route add default xxx") after the first
time it goes away and all is well.  Does this work for you, or is
your problem more persistant?