I'm currently trying to connect a linux machine to the net via a proxy server running on a wiin98 machine. Although i can use the different browsers/FTP clients to do so, I'm trying to get SETI to run on it which requires access to the net via the command-line. At the present time, i can ping the Proxy server but i cannot ping any NET IP address. The route command gives me the ff output: Destination Gateway Genmask Flags Metric Ref Use Iface <network> * 255.255.255.0 U 0 0 0 eth0 where <network > is my network. Is there anything i should be seeing here? The proxy uses a 'cable modem' connection but since i'm using a proxy, that should be transparent to the linux box. I can surf the web from the linux box but that requires me to tell the 'browser' what the proxy is. I have set the 'Proxy' variables in the rc.config file. I have no /etc/route.conf at the moment and i'm not sure i should be creating a 'route.conf' as opposed to modifying a file that *should* already exist. I'm using Suse 7.1 Clifford