RE: network connection dies randomly?

[John W. Lemons III]

>I installed and configured QMail on Friday of last week.  It passed all the
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Another detail that may help...  When the connection appears hung,
netstat -r
hangs before it reports the default route.  I can't even kill it.  Is the
routing table getting hosed?  If so, how?  Also, pump sometimes brings it
back to life, but usually just hangs and can't be killed.