Hi Tony, >>>>> Any chance of seeing /e/n/i? > > My thanks to everyone who helped resolve this question, especially Reco and > Darjac, who set me on the right path to the solution. > > It turned out that indeed having two default routes was a killer, but having > sorted that, restarting the networking service was upsetting openvpn, which > somehow consumed 100% of my network capability, and gave every impression of > the network being dead. > > Disabling openvpn sorted that. As I don't normally use openvpn, I can easily > start it on occasions when I need it. I'll get back to sorting out what it's > doing wrong when I've got more time. >
Like I wrote before, some services do not like it when network part they rely on disappears for a (short) while when the network restarts. In my case Quagga was one of them, it seems OpenVPN is another one. Unless you really want to debug why, Just create a script that does a service network restart first and then a service openvpn restart Bonno Bloksma
