Hi, all. I've almost got everything working, but my ppp connection has a weird, and very inconvenient problem. Once it starts up, I can get to any machine (including resolving names and so on) except those on my own subnet! Very inconvenient. Here's as much information as I know how to give: my route.conf file looks like this: xxx.xx.xxx.0 0.0.0.0 255.255.254.0 eth0 xxx.xx.xxx.0 0.0.0.0 255.255.254.0 ppp0 The two addresses are the same, because I'm trying to connect to the same place at the end. Ethernet works fine, by the way. I set things up this way based on some messages on this list a while ago (before I joined). When I first start up using wvdial, the command "route" gives the following: Dest Gateway Genmask Flags .... Iface xxx.xx.xx.x * 255.255.255.255 UH ppp0 tel156.40.248.0 * 255.255.254.0 U eth0 loopback ... U default xxx.xx.xx.x 0.0.0.0 UG ppp0 That "tel" in the second line is interesting -- I suspect it's relevant, but I don't know what to do with it. Now, as I said, I can do anything except access the machines I most want -- those on my own subnet. If I try to telnet for example, I get the message "no route to host". Now if I try rcroute restart, I get an error message: Error while executing: /sbin/route del -net xxx.xx.xxx.0 netmask 255.255.254.0 dev ppp0 SIOCDELRT: No such process Shutting down routing failed Now my route table is just as before, but with the eth0 line above no longer present. And I can get to anything. If I remove the ppp0 line from /etc/route.conf, the same thing happens except that after the error I still can't get to my own machines. Any help greatly appreciated. Thanks, Matt Wiener -- 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