Replying to myself:

> Richard writes:

>> For some reason eth0 has stopped comming up when the machine is booted,
>> giving these errors:

>> * Bringing eth0 up...                 [ ok ]
>> *   Setting default gateway...
>> SIOCADDRT: File exists
>> * Failed to bring eth0 up             [ !! ]
>> * Bringing eth0 down...               [ ok ]

> Just for the record, the same happens here. Probably after an
> emerge -u world, but I'm not sure, I'm not rebooting too often.

>> However running the init.d script manually as root works fine:

> Right.

>> Any ideas?

> Not yet.

Searchig the forum again, I found some threads I had missed before.  
The suggestion there is not to start /etc/init.d/net.eth0 at all:
rc-update del net.eth0
I think this _cannot_ work, but it does. Strange. But all seems to be  
fine.

        Alex
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