routing problems

[Kevin Brown]

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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