alright, i'm apparantly being particularly dense about something, and i hope someone can point me in the right direction. i'm trying to setup a lan with two machines, tyre and illium, with ip addresses 192.168.2.1 and .2, respectively. however, for the life of me, i can't find the documentation which will give me a simple answer about making these two machines talk to each other. i'd like to eventually use one machine as a gateway, but at the moment, i'd just be happy if i could get the lan up. the network cards appear to be able to ping themselves, but when i try to ping the other machine, i get 'network unreachable.' where're the docs which tell me if/what server i need to start, etc. any help appreciated. -- -derek "Strange times are these in which we live; when the old and the young are taught falsehoods in the schools of learning, and the one man that dares to tell the truth is called at once a lunatic, and a fool." --Plato - To get out of this list, please send email to majordomo@suse.com with this text in its body: unsubscribe suse-linux-e Check out the SuSE-FAQ at <A HREF="http://www.suse.com/Support/Doku/FAQ/"><A HREF="http://www.suse.com/Support/Doku/FAQ/</A">http://www.suse.com/Support/Doku/FAQ/</A</A>> and the archiv at <A HREF="http://www.suse.com/Mailinglists/suse-linux-e/index.html"><A HREF="http://www.suse.com/Mailinglists/suse-linux-e/index.html</A">http://www.suse.com/Mailinglists/suse-linux-e/index.html</A</A>>