I have installed Suse 8.1 on two machines that have been running 7.3. On my home machine on my home LAN, I didn't have much trouble getting it to add a default route using the LAN firewall/forwarder as a gateway. But here at work, I can't get the thing on the net using the yast tool. I will show you my existing routing table on the machine that works: Destination Gateway Genmask Flags Metric Ref Use Iface 134.252.41.0 * 255.255.255.0 U 0 0 0 eth0 default * 0.0.0.0 U 0 0 0 eth0 but on the 8.1 machine I only get the first line of the routing table, not the second line showing a default route. When I manually do: #route add default eth0 then the 8.1 machine works fine. The DNS is set up Ok using yast, so once I do the manual route add, the machine is on the net. Then the 8.1 machine's route table looks like the 7.3 machine. But I can't figure out how to make it do that at bootup using the yast configuration. Honestly I can't recall how I did it with the 7.3 machine, if it was troublesome or easy. I can also show you the rc.config variable from the 7.3 machine: IFCONFIG_0="134.252.41.24 broadcast 134.252.41.255 netmask 255.255.255.0" Ok, so what do I put in the following fields in the 8.1 yast configuration for basic networking, for the eth0 card: default gateway? Should I use "expert" routing configuration? If so what to put: destination? dummy gateway? netmask? device? I tried mand possible combinations, but I can only get it to work when I manually route add. :-( Help will be greatly appreciated! -- ____________________________________ Christopher R. Carlen Principal Laser/Optical Technologist Sandia National Laboratories CA USA crcarle@sandia.gov