You may have seen the thread started by me over a similar sort of routing problem about a week to ten days ago. That may help. Hopefully the thread is archived. One extra tip that may help, it certainly helped me when when for some obsure reason I could only receive certain BBC streams on-line and not others. Set your firewall to log all dropped packets. Look in /var/log/messages for lines with DROP. This will provide very valuable clues. Use 'ping' to check that the internal connections are up. If you can't ping your modem, you will get no further either literally or metaphorically. The address for Alcatel modems is 10.0.0.138. I have a backup dialup account on ppp0. I have found that if I activated the ppp0 interface, and then disconnected, connection to Alcatel through eth0 could not be reestablished. Worse still, only a complete power-down restored the system (SuSE 8.0). From now on, I will ensure that the network is completely shut down before the dialup is activated. This is not a real problem, because the system is intended for emergency use. As it a pay-as-you-go account I must activate it regularly, but this can be done through a cron script timed to run in slack period - in my case lunchtime. Hope this helps Basil Fowler