Following up, particularly on Adrian Levi's suggestion to eliminate
the gateway spec in /etc/network/interfaces:
Thanks, Adrian! Your idea makes sense. Trying it: it changes the
routing table exactly as you described, causing my routing table to
match yours (excepting, of course, the specific IP#s).
Regrettably, the problem persists - though possibly with a different
threshold of sorts, as pinging now seems to work. However-
apt-get update
still hangs. I have to kill BOTH the firewall and eth1 in order to
make this work (not seeming to wait indefinitely for communication).
I think the gateway correction is definitely a step in the right
direction.
In case someone want to know (I'm not trying to withhold information!)
my /etc/apt/sources.list is very boring:
deb http://http.us.debian.org/debian stable main contrib non-free
deb http://security.debian.org/ stable/updates main contrib non-free
Thanks to everyone for your ideas... hopefully the next one will resolve
matters entirely.
-f
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