I am trying to get my LAN up but no joy. I cannot ping locally, and local machines cannot ping me. route add -net 192.168.0.0 netmask 255.255.255.0 eth0 ifconfig eth0 192.168.0.1 netmask 255.255.255.0 up route -n shows [root@xxxxx root]# route -n Kernel IP routing table Destination Gateway Genmask Flags Metric Ref Use Iface 203.53.253.31 0.0.0.0 255.255.255.255 UH 0 0 0 ppp0 192.168.0.0 0.0.0.0 255.255.255.0 U 0 0 0 eth0 192.168.0.0 0.0.0.0 255.255.255.0 U 0 0 0 eth0 169.254.0.0 0.0.0.0 255.255.0.0 U 0 0 0 lo 127.0.0.0 0.0.0.0 255.0.0.0 U 0 0 0 lo 0.0.0.0 203.53.253.31 0.0.0.0 UG 0 0 0 ppp0 any thoughts kind recieved, Kevin -- ______ (_____ \ _____) ) ____ ____ ____ ____ | ____/ / _ ) / _ | / ___) / _ ) | | ( (/ / ( ( | |( (___ ( (/ / |_| \____) \_||_| \____) \____) Kevin Waterson Port Macquarie, Australia