hi to all, i just set a server with 8.1 pro. i have some problems with the network connection. the computer has two ethernet cards and an isdn card. one ethernet card goes straight up to the internal etwork, the other one is used for pppoe (default gw) and the isdn card is used for routing to specific servers. when booting and setting up the network devices i get the following messages: setting up network interfaces lo eth0 192.168.120.1/255.255.255.0 eth1 192.168.0.99/255.255.255.0 ippp0 dsl0 error: connection to smpppd failed (use --verbose for more information) ifup-dsl: interface dsl0 is not known by smpppd failed and (due to this, i think): starting firewall /sbin/SuSEfirewall2 line 687: test 192.168.120.22. integer expression expected iptables v1.2.7a: host/network 'ippp0' not found after booting can fix this with the following three lines: /etc/sysconfig/network/scripts/ifdown-ippp ippp0 /etc/sysconfig/network/scripts/ifup-dsl dsl0 /etc/sysconfig/network/scripts/ifup-ippp ippp0 another thing is that the computer looses the routing information from /etc/sysconfig/network/routes when the ippp0-connection gets closed. with /etc/sysconfig/network/scripts/ifup-route ippp0 the routing gets the state it should have. what went wrong with 8.1? -- Dirk Borchers ----------------------------------------------------- WebMen Internet GmbH Am Wall 196 - 28195 Bremen Tel.: (0421) 24 34 9-40 - Fax: (0421) 24 34 9-41 E-Mail: dirk.borchers@webmen.de -----------------------------------------------------