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On Thu, 27 Mar 1997, Antonio Nati wrote:

> The problem has disappeared when the lo0 (internal loop-back) configuration
> line is executed before the ed0 (ethernet address) line.

Interesting.  The ed0 route must be spitting out some sort of DNS lookup
or route check that jams if the loopback isn't there.

Doug White                              | University of Oregon  
Internet:  dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu    | Residence Networking Assistant
http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite    | Computer Science Major