when you look at your routing table your default route, the one with 0.0.0.0 is using your ppp0 device you need to add a default route that uses eth0 hope this gets you on the right track see ya randy > 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 > > > > -- > Shrike-list mailing list > Shrike-list@xxxxxxxxxx > https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/shrike-list
