for better or worse I have a machine running Redhat 7.1 .. which has iproute-2.2.4-7 installed ... but to me surprise does not appear to have a /etc/iproute2 directory .. (so adding a table to rt_tables is a bit tricky) ... a quick search doesnt locate that directory anywhere .. or the rt_tables file. so .. what to do about that? can I just grab the files of another install or what? -- Robin Szemeti Redpoint Consulting Limited Real Solutions For A Virtual World