I am having big problems setting up a small network under SuSE8.0 Everything was fine until I got my isdn connection working beside my DSL connection. Then as far as I can tell the routing tables went to hell. I would describe what I've done but I've fiddled so much that it's a mess, so I'm going to describe what I want to achieve and pray that someone can tell me what I should be doing and where I should be doing things. I've got two computer 'beast' and 'laptop'. Beast has two ethernet cards - one connected to the local lan and the other connected to my broadband connection (PPPoE). I want the local network setup on net 192.168.15.0. The ips are: beast 192.168.15.2 laptop 192.168.15.8 At the moment they can't see (ping) one another. The PPPoE connection works, almost regardless of what I do with the eth0 and eth1, even when I delete them! I want to setup so that beast and laptop so that they can see one another so I can mount NFS etc. and setup the beast as a gateway for laptop for the internet. This was all working a few days ago. For what it's worth the output of route (with the ppp0) connection is: Destination Gateway Genmask Flags Metric Ref Use Iface 61.48.57.254 * 255.255.255.255 UH 0 0 0 ppp0 192.168.15.0 * 255.255.255.0 U 0 0 0 eth0 loopback * 255.0.0.0 U 0 0 0 lo default 61.48.57.254 0.0.0.0 UG 0 0 0 ppp0 With the ppp0 connection closed the output of route is: Destination Gateway Genmask Flags Metric Ref Use Iface 192.168.15.0 * 255.255.255.0 U 0 0 0 eth0 loopback * 255.0.0.0 U 0 0 0 lo As I say I've fiddled so much I've gone around in circles and am no longer clear on anything. Help much appreciated, Jethro -------------------------------------------------------