[ale] Routes that fade away...

[gnies at mindspring.com (George A. Nies)]

Millard Wayne, An Infocure Company wrote:
> 
> I have just set up a RedHat 4.2 internet gateway for our internet
> connection.  I have aquired a dedicated 33.6 dialup account with a
> static IP.  It works great....except(you knew this was coming), every
> couple of hours for no apparent reason the default route to the Net just
> disappears.  I don't know if this is caused by line noise, just enough
> to drop the route, but not enough to drop the line, or some other
> problem.  I am wondering a couple of things.  Has anyone seen this, and
> is there a way to fix it, and barring that, can I monitor for it some
> how, and have the route automatically reestablished if a drop is
> detected.
> 
> Thanks in advance for any advice.
> 
> Tory,

Check and see if routed or gated is running. They both like
deleting routes at random.

	-George