With initscripts-4.68-1 the networking tries to attach a default route to
EVERY network interface as it brings it up. The following patch appears to
correct this, although I'm not sure whether this patch fixes the problem or
hides it...

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--- /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifup~	Tue Nov 16 17:25:41 1999
+++ /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifup	Sun Nov 28 16:11:46 1999
@@ -130,8 +130,6 @@
 	if [ "${GATEWAY}" != "" ]; then
 	    route add default gw ${GATEWAY} ${DEVICE}
 	    DEFGW=${GATEWAY}
-	else
-	    route add default ${DEVICE}
 	fi
     fi
 fi

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Any and all comments much appreciated...