That was the problem. I forgot to think of 133.27.179.224 as the network address. Changing the router's address to 133.27.179.225 immediately solved the problem. Thank you very much for your help. Christopher penrose@sfc.keio.ac.jp On Monday, November 5, 2001, at 06:26 PM, Serge Maandag wrote: > His eth1 has ip 133.27.179.224 mask 255.255.255.240. > > That is impossible, because .224 is the network address for that subnet. > It's not valid to assign that one to a host. Change it to .225 and do a > network restart. His routing table seems correct. > > Serge. - : send the line "unsubscribe linux-net" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html