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Date:      Fri, 17 Apr 1998 14:47:14 -0700 (PDT)
From:      Doug White <dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu>
To:        chas <panda@peace.com.my>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Install : unable to add static route but network up.
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.3.96.980417144638.1625H-100000@gdi.uoregon.edu>
In-Reply-To: <3.0.32.19980417110453.00eabfd0@peace.com.my>

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On Fri, 17 Apr 1998, chas wrote:

> Installing 2.2.5, the installation procedure goes as normal
> until I choose to install via FTP : it then hangs 
> indefinitely at "adding static route to xxx.xxx.xxx.x 
> (our default gateway)".
> 
> (This is despite being able to ping this machine from other
> servers on the network. Also the machine previously had 
> 2.2.1 installed and had no communications problems with this
> very same card so I doubt it is the NIC, UTP or port.)
> 
> This is not an insurmountable problem : I'll install
> 2.2.1 from CDROM and then upgrade the source again. 
> I'm just curious if others have had this problem
> and if there is a rational explanation for this ?

I've had this happen too, but that was for a NIC that would ifconfig but
wouldn't respond.  I could attribute such things to nameserver lookup
failures.

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



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