In message <brufpb$5h7$1@colwyn.zhadum.de>, Matthias Scheler writes:
>In article <20031217124536.609357B43@berkshire.research.att.com>,
>	Steve Bellovin <smb@research.att.com> writes:
>> When I'm using 802.11 in low signal conditions, I sometimes find that 
>> my default route has gone away.  I assume that something in the kernel 
>> has decided that the route is losing somehow, and deletes it.
>
>Are you sure that ...
>
>> ...  (My IP address and default route  are installed via dhclient.)
>
>... dhclient isn't doing that if it can not reach the DHCP server?
>

Utterly certain -- I set the lease time to two weeks...

		--Steve Bellovin, http://www.research.att.com/~smb