In article <3DF4D70B.2040903@si.rr.com> you wrote: > Has anyone had a linux kernel 2.4.17 machine to 'all of a sudden' > lose it's default route. This has been observed on a few of my current > company's client machines, but I can't seem to explain it. Thanks. Are you running DHCP or PPP on them? Running dynamic routing daemons? Losing does mean the default route does not show in "route"/"ip route" output? Any dmesg output? You might want to run "ip monitor all" into a log file and see if only the route disappear or if alos the device is taken down (which will delete the routes) Greetings Bernd -- eckes privat - http://www.eckes.org/ Project Freefire - http://www.freefire.org/ - : send the line "unsubscribe linux-net" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html