Hi all, I recently put SuSE 7.3 on my PowerMac 8500. I've loaded the minimal install plus X, and also added routed and the most recent build of zebra. In essence, I'd like my 8500 to be a router (on a 56k connection for now, broadband later). I've played with the related settings so much I don't know what information to give anymore. Basically, I set up the system with ip forwarding on, a route table (in route.conf, if I recall correctly), ifconfig, and route. Then I tried to hook up a Mac OS 9 based PowerMac and got nowhere. Currently, the OS 9 mac is using the 56k modem. It's hooked up via ethernet to a switch, which is also connected to the SuSE system. They can ping each other just fine, but the OS9 can't reach beyond the SuSE to the internet. It may be important to note that they OS9 pings SuSE via MachTen, a BSD environment for OS9 and previous. There's no standard Mac app that I'm using to ping the SuSE box. I later tried routed, which theoretically should have dynamically taken care of everything. No dice. I also downloaded Zebra, and followed all the instructions for set up and running. Still nothing. I'm wondering if anyone has ever experienced this problem before, and if so, what a potential solution could be. Should I configure atalkd? Will acting as an Appletalk router actually help, or is it more complexity than what I need? Am I just overlooking something? I know that OS9 systems have their own host file format-could there be something unique to Macs that I'm overlooking? Any help would be appreciated. Thanks, Erik -- _______________________________________________ Talk More, Pay Less with Net2Phone Direct(R), up to 1500 minutes free! http://www.net2phone.com/cgi-bin/link.cgi?143