uswest.net is the ISP and the internal network is 10.0.0.x/24 as you surmised. The
routing and DNS were working fine until Sunday which is a mystery because I didn't
do any changes. I booted into windows to play a game and booted back into linux and
it's had the problem ever since.


Kevin Brown wrote:

> More info please.  Who is your ISP???  If it is USWest, then What is your
> internal network (10.0.0.x/24???).  I'm currently using this router for USWest
> (DSL and ISP) in PPP mode and my Linux box (RH6.0 Dec Alpha) has no problem with
> it as the gateway.  I do not have X installed (I like CLI in Linux).  Only real
> problem I had was getting the name servers configured (took 30 min on web to
> find solution) and could then use the system fine.  Internally the linux box is
> given a static IP (all the other boxes are given dynamic IPs, but dhcpd and
> pump?? don't work with the router).
>
> > Cisco 675 DSL router
> > Mandrake 7.0
> >
> > I can't route to other networks when I use the DSL router as the
> > gateway. It worked for quite a while but suddenly stopped (with no
> > changes from my end). when I try to look at the routing table with
> > 'netstat -r' it shows all the routes and then hangs just before the DSL
> > router's entry. It just hangs there forever.. If I remove the route
> > (route del default), the route command doesn't hang anymore. If I re-add
> > the route (route add default gw 10.0.0.1) it just hangs again. I can
> > ping the router and it seems OK. The strange thing is that the router
> > works fine if I reboot into win98 (I had to boot into windows to send
> > this email).
> >
> > Not being a network expert, I'm a bit perplexed. I know (or have read
> > somewhere [must be correct if I read it right :) ] that some OS's rely
> > on an "active" router to respong to routed request's with some sort of
> > ACK while others are happy with a "passive" route with no response from
> > routed on the router. Could this have some sort of relation to my
> > problem or am I even more confused than I think I am?
>
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