Here's another strange error message. I know this syntax is wrong: # ip ro ap default nexthop 66.95.83.209 dev eth1 nexthop 65.84.205.97 dev eth2 Error: "nexthop" or end of line is expected instead of "66.95.83.209" - what I've done is leave out the "via"s - but it should _not_ be expecting either "nexthop" or an EOL directly after a "nexthop" statement, right?! Does this give a clue to what's broken when the syntax is entered 'correctly'? Whit