Morning Ron, How do you have your default route setup when you are not connected? pppd should be able to setup the default route automatically with the "defaultroute" option regardless of the eth0 setting. Are you trying to switch the default route from eth0 to ppp0 when you dial up? ppp0 should always be your default route with eth0 being the route to your network subnet mask. There really isn't anything spectacular about the setup for your situation. You might want to give us a little more information about your settings - ie default routes when not dialed up - pppd command issued to dial up, etc. John W Higgins john@wishdev.com -----Original Message----- From: Ron Cordell [mailto:roncordell@atl.mediaone.net] Sent: Monday, November 05, 2001 11:12 AM To: suse-linux-e@suse.com Subject: [SLE] Network questions I am working off site with a group of people. We have brought a set of network hubs with us and have a designated machine to act as file server, print server, and DHCP server for our little network. However, because of security concerns, we don't have ethernet access to any other networks; our little network is completely isolated. We each have a modem with which we can dial-up for internet access. However, when I use DHCP on my network card eth0 and attempt to dial-up, pppd is unable to set the default route to whatever the ppp0 gateway should be. If instead of using DHCP on eth0 I assign a static IP, the pppd is able to set the default route, and I can access the internet. Can anyone give me some ideas as to what I need to set to use DHCP on eth0 while dialing up the internet on ppp0 and getting the default route to set dynamically? Thanks, -ronc -- To unsubscribe send e-mail to suse-linux-e-unsubscribe@suse.com For additional commands send e-mail to suse-linux-e-help@suse.com Also check the FAQ at http://www.suse.com/support/faq and the archives at http://lists.suse.com