Hi, all. I've now figured out a little bit more about my routing problem. The problem is that after I connect through dialup (this happens using either wvdial or kppp), I have 2 interfaces up: ppp0 to the ISP, and eth0 to my local subnet. This is true even if I in fact have no connection to the ethernet at the time (for example, if I'm at home rather than at the office). When I try to reach the local subnet, the router tries to go through the ethernet connection, which isn't there. This accounts for the "no route to host" error message. Shutting down the eth0 connection then lets me access things through the ppp connection. When I try to access a machine not in our local subnet, the eth0 connection is ignored and everything works. So my revised question is: can I either 1) set up some sort of auto-detect, so that if I'm not actually connected to the ethernet eth0 isn't set up; or 2) set things so that if there's no route through eth0 the router "rolls over" to ppp. As a last resort, I can set up scripts to start and stop ethernet, but it seems it should be possible to do this automatically. Is there a way to probe for whether the ethernet connection is really working? Thanks for any help. Matt Wiener -- To unsubscribe send e-mail to suse-linux-e-unsubscribe@suse.com For additional commands send e-mail to suse-linux-e-help@suse.com Also check the FAQ at http://www.suse.com/support/faq