Sean Walberg wrote:
Do you have an arp entry for your next hop gw when its down? What's the link status reported by ifconfig? Errors? Tcpdump the interface, do you see anything at all? (Normally you should see a lot of arping, at least on the residential side)
The arp table is empty with the entry for the gw incomplete.
ifconfig shows everything normal. no errors.
I can not remember if I tried tcpdump but pings certainly did not work. I think ifconfig showed no activity but I can not be sure.
-- Bill