Hello, i am using suse-linux 8.0 and i am trying to get this to work: eth0 = local network ppp0 = dsl modem ippp0= isdn-card network traffic coming from eth0 and going to ppp0 by default network traffic to dport25 is routed to ippp0 (dynamic-ip) the traffic from eth0 to ppp0 is working but the configuration for ippp0 is killing me :-( marking the pakets: # iptables -A PREROUTING -i eth0 -t mangle -p tcp --dport 25 \ -j MARK --set-mark 1 configuring the policy routing database: # echo 201 mail.out >> /etc/iproute2/rt_tables # ip rule add fwmark 1 table mail.out # ip rule ls 0: from all lookup local 32764: from all fwmark 1 lookup mail.out 32766: from all lookup main 32767: from all lookup default and at last the mail.out table with the route to ippp0, but thatīs my problem: (i think) # ip route add default dev ippp0 table mail.out when i am now sending a mail (port25) ippp0 is dialing, but then the route is deleted, so i set the route again manual with the above command, but the mail is not delivered i have tryed to route the pakets back to my local net to the external isdn-router: # ip route add default via 192.168.21.10 dev eth0 table mail.out this is working!!! where do i fail? when i try to set "default route" in the isdn configuration my default route to the dsl connection is deleted I hope somebody can help me regards, stefan _______________________________________________ LARTC mailing list / LARTC@mailman.ds9a.nl http://mailman.ds9a.nl/mailman/listinfo/lartc HOWTO: http://lartc.org/