U must make sure the ip-up script is for SuSEfirewall2, I had a similar problem and that was because the default script on my SuSe7.3 box was for SuSEfirewall See mail from yast below: Congratulations to your installation of / update to SuSEfirewall2-1.7. Please have a look at the firewall2 configuration file in /etc/rc.confid.d/firewall2.rc.config and edit it according to your needs before you start SuSEfirewall2. If you have SuSEfirewall (the old one) running, you need to stop that one before (rcSuSEfirewall stop) starting SuSEfirewall2. Documentation about SuSEfirewall2 may be found in the directory /usr/share/doc/packages/packages/SuSEfirewall2/ Please check that the ip-up script from there is installed in /etc/ppp/ip-up Yours, SuSE Security Team