hi all, this now happened 3 times on suse 7.1 and kernel 2.4 which comes with suse 7.1 : the kernel seems to drop the routing table after a while. after starting the network (eth0 & eth1) & route & alias-ip (eth0:0 - eth0:38) adresses, everything works fine. route shows up the correct entrys, the domains can be reached and the server can connect to the internet (so route's are set up ok) after a while the connections are lost. the route command no longer shows any entrys ('hangs', i.e. can only terminated with ctrl-c) and the domains are no longer reachable. also, not always all ip's are unreachable, some still work, some not. and even worse, sometimes it can still be reached inside the network, but not from outside (i.e. ping to an adress from inside the net is ok but not from outside the net. and again, not all ip's are affected....) this is driving me crazy........ has anybody an idea what can cause this ?? greets, chris -- visit me at http://mamalala.de