[NTLUG:Discuss] OT: multiple routers question

[Chris Cox]

Darin W. Smith wrote:
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> 
> Everything works great, except that the new router (a DLink 604) 
> periodically loses the ability to communicate to the outside 
> world...however, we can ping and traceroute through it to hit external 
> IP1 on the barricade.  And when we do that, the whole outside world 
> comes back.

Smells like a dynamic route protocol issue.  Are you using
dynamic routing?  Might want to look into that.

This is just a guess.