..'info ifconfig', you wanna do 'ifconfig eth1:0 192.168.129.254 up' or somesuch, on your gw. The new boxes on that net needs to know where to go, too. -- ..med vennlig hilsen = with Kind Regards from Arnt... ;-) ...with a number of polar bear hunters in his ancestry... Scenarios always come in sets of three: best case, worst case, and just in case.