In article <Pine.LNX.4.44.0302102204540.1771-100000@trillian.beachbash.net> you write:
>This is the built in ethernet interface on an 8500.
>When I issued: pkg_add apache, all I got was a message indicating that
>there was no inet6 route to the host (ftp.netbsd.org).
>Then the interface went down.  I left it to think, seeing if it would
>recover, but eventually I had to log into the console and issue an
>ifconfig for the interface again, though ifconfig said the device was up
>before, it only started working again and responding to ssh sessions once
>I ran ifconfig.
>
>Obviously I don't like haivng to resort to the console at random.
>Has anyone else encountered such problems?

Yes.  <http://www.NetBSD.org/cgi-bin/query-pr-single.pl?number=12088>
includes a couple of fixes.

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Ben Harris                                                   <bjh21@netbsd.org>
Portmaster, NetBSD/acorn26           <URL:http://www.netbsd.org/Ports/acorn26/>