hi ya daniel
i just assumed your manual route add command was a cut-n-paste of the commands from the email ...( not from your history files ? ) dont matter ... good that it was a single "bit" off from what ya wanted ... it(ifup) shoulda been self-correcting ... ( self correcting to what?? who knows.. :-) c ya alvin On Tue, 20 Nov 2001, Daniel Hartman wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > > do you mean *.244.241 or *.245.241 in gateway ... > > > > === you have a typo !! > > > Ah! That was it. I modified my /etc/network/interfaces to reflect the > correct gateway, rebooted, and everything works great. Many thanks. > > Ok, let's take a step back now. If networking works after I perform: > > # route add default eth0 > # route add default gw 128.165.244.241 > > which uses the incorrect gateway, then why doesn't it work upon booting > the machine? Is there some sort of error generated in the networking > script that I don't see? > > Thanks again. > > Dan > >