As additional information to my last and quoted message, I found that a) When calling a remote Linux System, PPP link uses two IP address of the same network. Example: After a PPP connection from my system to a remote PPP box I got this configuration: local IP address: 192.168.193.2 remote IP address: 192.168.193.1 ping to 192.168.193.1 works fine b) When calling a remote PPP Server, PPP link uses two IP address of different network. Example: After a PPP connection from my system to a remote PPP NT server I got this configuration: local IP address: 192.168.75.30 remote IP address 192.168.165.8 ping to 192.168.75.30 works fine ping to 192.168.165.8 doesn't Any idea about ?? Thanks Hello, Still configuring a Linux Dial-out box on a ipchains system. Used system: Linux 2.2.18 RedHat 6.2 Connecting a Linux PPP Server Works fine. Connecting a PPP Server used as router to reach Linux system on local LAN Means: <--- My LAN ----> My Dial-out box ----> Other PPP Server ---> Linux System Assume Other PPP Server is correctly configured, means has the routes to reach any system on My LAN as well as the default route for Linux System is Other PPP Server Connection goeas well, even for those Other PPP Server using PAP. Problem is I can't ping Other PP Server nor Linux System. This is my ipchains status: # ipchains -L -v Chain input (policy ACCEPT: 1344758 packets, 420583373 bytes): Chain forward (policy DENY: 625 packets, 72407 bytes): pkts bytes target prot opt tosa tosx ifname mark outsize source destination ports 0 0 MASQ all ------ 0xFF 0x00 eth0 anywhere anywhere n/a 0 0 MASQ all ------ 0xFF 0x00 ppp0 anywhere anywhere n/a 0 0 MASQ all ------ 0xFF 0x00 ppp1 anywhere anywhere n/a When I esatblish a PPP Out connection: local IP address 192.168.1.199 remote IP address 142.4.0.252 ifconfig: ppp0 Link encap:Point-to-Point Protocol inet addr:192.168.1.199 P-t-P:142.4.0.252 Mask:255.255.255.255 UP POINTOPOINT RUNNING NOARP MULTICAST MTU:1522 Metric:1 RX packets:20 errors:1 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:1 TX packets:21 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0 collisions:0 txqueuelen:10 netstat -nra: Destination Gateway Genmask Flags MSS Window irtt Iface 142.4.0.252 0.0.0.0 255.255.255.255 UH 0 0 0 ppp0 192.168.2.0 0.0.0.0 255.255.255.0 U 0 0 0 eth0 192.168.1.0 0.0.0.0 255.255.255.0 U 0 0 0 eth1 142.1.0.0 0.0.0.0 255.255.255.0 U 0 0 0 ppp0 127.0.0.0 0.0.0.0 255.0.0.0 U 0 0 0 lo 0.0.0.0 192.168.2.11 0.0.0.0 UG 0 0 0 eth0 traceroute 142.1.0.4 traceroute -n 142.1.0.4 traceroute to 142.1.0.4 (142.1.0.4), 30 hops max, 38 byte packets 1 192.168.2.11 0.737 ms 0.713 ms 0.478 ms 2 194.38.82.30 61.897 ms 86.457 ms 62.746 ms 3 195.202.192.241 63.708 ms 62.083 ms 63.037 ms 4 195.202.192.237 63.733 ms 65.720 ms 63.966 ms 5 194.38.74.153 96.650 ms 87.651 ms 74.909 ms 6 * Problem is my request to 142.1.0.4 is going out using the Default Gateway of My Dial-out box rather than using ppp0 connection. Are there some other tools providing more detailed information as traceroute ? Any idea ? Thanks - : send the line "unsubscribe linux-net" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org