what does `route show`  say and is the default gateway correct?

Cheers
Ste

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Destination        Gateway            Flags    Refs      Use    Mtu  Interface
default            192.168.1.1        UGS         0      194      -   fxp0
127/8              127.0.0.1          UGRS        0        0  33224   lo0
127.0.0.1          127.0.0.1          UH          3      389  33224   lo0
192.168.1/24       link#1             UC          3        0      -   fxp0
192.168.1.1        00:50:7f:21:67:94  UHLc        1       37      -   fxp0
192.168.1.4        00:11:25:46:4b:11  UHLc        0        1      -   fxp0
192.168.2/24       link#2             UC          1        0      -   fxp1
192.168.2.5        00:d0:b7:3f:44:85  UHLc        2    23543      -   fxp1
192.168.3/24       link#3             UC          2        0      -   fxp2

The default gateway appears to be correct, 192.168.1.1, the IP address
of the hardware router.

MC

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Well.

Amazing, and sickening as it is, rebooting the machine appears
to have cleared up the problem.

Any more of this and I'd have broken out in hives or chewed
through a mains cable.

Thanks for your time, everybody who replied on and off list.

MC

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