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[bogus at does.not.exist.com]

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--- 192.168.0.1 ping statistics ---
88 packets transmitted, 0 received, +43 errors, 100% packet loss, time 87233ms pipe 4

absolutely nothing goes out - at least it seems so.


Sometimes, though, whoever decided to speak to me, and pings started
to get returned, but then ...

3) if connection is working, ping times are crazy and connection breaks down suddenly
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pinging my own gateway results in things like:
64 bytes from 192.168.0.1: icmp_req=35 ttl=255 time=119395 ms

or