Hello I have 4 nic eth 1,2,3,4 connecting to DSL lines and 1 NIC is eth5 xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx to a ISDN 24/7 dailin line. eth0 192.168.1.0 is the LAN network I like to balance these Why is it still dead if I ad a default gw then traffic is running over that gw. ip route show output : 192.168.1.0/24 dev eth0 scope link 10.0.1.0/24 dev eth1 scope link 10.0.2.0/24 dev eth2 scope link 10.0.3.0/24 dev eth3 scope link 10.0.4.0/24 dev eth4 scope link xxx.xxx.xxx.0/25 dev eth5 scope link 127.0.0.0/8 dev lo scope link default nexthop dev eth1 weight 1 nexthop dev eth2 weight 1 nexthop dev eth3 weight 1 nexthop dev eth4 weight 1 nexthop dev eth5 weight 4 Kernel version 2.4.20 compiled with julian's patch Equal cost multipath is on. iproute2 version ss001007 is running a newer version gives deadlink on pervasive (whatever it means) !!! Thanks Sjaak