Hello. I have some very anxious people for whom to provide a gateway, and who would be happy to install a bootleg copy of Windows 2000. The gateway is for W2K hosts, but that's irrelevant until I start messing with Samba. For now, I'm stuck enabling this SuSE 7.2 computer to route the connections. I prefer using the file /etc/route.conf instead of using the command 'route' because it's easier for me to understand. I have two Ethernet cards which were loaded and configured at boottime (eth0 with the static IP 192.168.1.22 and the other,eth1, via DHCP). That's not the problem. That works perfectly. I just _don't_ know how to set up the routing. I got this far, but I don't know if this works because the new computers are coming Monday.. #Kernel IP routing table #Destination Gateway Genmask Iface 127.0.0.1 * 255.0.0.0 lo default 10.1.0.1 255.255.255.0 eth1 Here's what I understand (please _do_ correct me, even yell at me, as I want to learn this... this is my first time dealing with a network with more than one PC..). The 'lo' interface is always there since it is the standard loopback network interface. It allows you to do cool stuff like login into yourself using ssh (which I've successfully done). The destination 'default' is a catch-all for any packets coming into the system (from which device, eth0 or eth1? both?). The school gateway is 10.1.0.1, and that's where all the packets are going, by default (any other destinations listed in the file will override the default). The interface 'eth1' is listed because that's the device I want the packets to be forwarded _to_. DId I miss something? Do I need an entry there for eth0 as well? I'm thinking not because I don't want any packets to be forwarded to that device (it's connected to a hub to my internal network). Yes, I have enabled IP forwarding and have checked it in /proc to make sure... Can someone please check this for me and correct me (and please explain :) on this? -- noodlez: Karol Pietrzak PGP KeyID: 0x3A1446A0