Hi, all -- I have seen this problem before and it's still biting me. My SuSE 8.1 laptop talks just fine over its wireless NIC, but can't talk over its wired NIC because of [apparent] route problems (that's what is *really* weird here). Another box I have has route problems as well, but I marked it as suspect because it's an LFS build. Now I'm trying to get my new Toshiba Satellite talking on the network. I can manually ifconfig the eth0 interface and it happily talks to itself, but I cannot get it to talk off the box (even though I have a link light on this known-good link). Although it should be able to talk anywhere in my home 192.168.42.0 without a default gateway, I added one with route add default gw 192.168.42.254 and my routing table, per `netstat -rn`, looks sensible: # netstat -rn Kernel IP routing table Destination Gateway Genmask Flags MSS Window irtt Iface 192.168.42.0 0.0.0.0 255.255.255.0 U 40 0 0 eth0 0.0.0.0 192.168.42.254 0.0.0.0 UG 40 0 0 eth0 Nothing I do, though, can get me off of the box. What do I need to do to set up proper routing?(!!?) TIA & HAND :-D -- David T-G * There is too much animal courage in (play) davidtg@justpickone.org * society and not sufficient moral courage. (work) davidtgwork@justpickone.org -- Mary Baker Eddy, "Science and Health" http://justpickone.org/davidtg/ Shpx gur Pbzzhavpngvbaf Qrprapl Npg!