Hello list I have a new laptop and I would connect it to my main machine to exchange files.But I cannot configure a valid route and only get this : /sbin/route Kernel IP routing table Destination Gateway Genmask Flags Metric Ref Use Iface localhost * 255.255.255.255 UH 0 0 0 lo loopback * 255.0.0.0 U 0 0 0 lo # ifup route ifup [DEBUG] route ifup [DEBUG] HWDESC = route CONFIG = INTERFACE = route ifup route ifup ERROR: No configuration found for route It must not be a hardware problem as the two machines can ping each other through their hostnames or IPv4 addresses. I made /etc/sysconfig/network/routes files which does not seem to be accepted this is the one of my main machine with its own address then that of the laptop 127.0.0.1 0.0.0.0 255.255.255.255 lo 192.168.0.1 0.0.0.0 255.255.255.0 eth-id-00:04:75:7f:38:25 192.168.0.3 0.0.0.0 255.255.255.0 eth-id-00:c0:9f:43:bd:d3 I have a similar one on my laptop I am not at all a network expert i just installed one long ago with SuSE 7.1, but things seem to have much changed I must be missing something obvious Could you help me ? -- ________________ Paul Ollion Proud Linux user - SuSE - 9.1