On Fri, 15 Aug 2003 14:45:50 +0100 Richard Underwood <richard@aspectgroup.co.uk> wrote: > 10.10.10.0 0.0.0.0 255.255.255.0 U 0 0 0 > eth0 So you told the kernel it can get to the 10.10.10.0 subnet over eth0. Why shouldn't it try to ARP over eth0 when trying to resolve 10.10.10.X as a nexthop? I think what you're really upset about is the source address choosen by the kernel, and therefore you want to more precisely control the kernel's default source address selection. Please check out the "ip" command and how you can use it to set the preferred source address used when a particular route matches. - : 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