I hope someone can point out what I'm doing wrong. I've been beating my brains on this for the last few days, and the customer I'm setting this up for is starting to get irate. Here's my setup, RH 5, stock kernel on a 386 and Pentium. The 205.160.77.0 Class C is subnetted with 255.255.255.224. My problem is that machines on the seperate ether lans can't see each other. Router1 and Router2 can ping the machines that are directly connected on the ether. Also, what does the message below from traceroute mean? One last note, the 56k dedicated link is a PPP connection through a SDL dds card. The link seems to be working fine, it just seems like packets from the ethernet aren't being forwarded though the ppp-2 interface. TIA, -steve [root@router1 log]# /usr/sbin/traceroute 205.160.77.196 traceroute: Warning: Multiple interfaces found; using 205.160.77.162 @eth0 traceroute to 205.160.77.196 (205.160.77.196), 30 hops max, 40 byte packets 1 * --------------------- |------------------- Router1 | | Router2 | | 205.160.77.177+-------56k dedicated-------------+205.160.77.195 | | 205.106.77.162 | | 205.160.77.193 --------------------- |---------+--------- | | | | | | | ------------+-EtherLan ---+------Ether Lan----------- Router1's ifconfig: [root@router1 log]# /sbin/ifconfig lo Link encap:Local Loopback inet addr:127.0.0.1 Bcast:127.255.255.255 Mask:255.0.0.0 UP BROADCAST LOOPBACK RUNNING MTU:3584 Metric:1 RX packets:18 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 TX packets:18 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:C0:DF:41:89:EF inet addr:205.160.77.162 Bcast:205.160.77.191 Mask:255.255.255.224 UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1 RX packets:25580 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 TX packets:17484 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 Interrupt:5 Base address:0x300 ppp-2 Link encap:Point-to-Point Protocol inet addr:205.160.77.177 P-t-P:205.160.77.195 Mask:255.255.255.224 UP POINTOPOINT RUNNING NOARP MTU:1500 Metric:1 RX packets:401 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 TX packets:737 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 Router 1 again: [root@router1 log]# /sbin/route -n Kernel IP routing table Destination Gateway Genmask Flags Metric Ref Use Iface 205.160.77.195 0.0.0.0 255.255.255.255 UH 0 0 0 ppp-2 205.160.77.160 0.0.0.0 255.255.255.224 U 0 0 37 eth0 205.160.77.192 0.0.0.0 255.255.255.224 U 0 0 3 ppp-2 127.0.0.0 0.0.0.0 255.0.0.0 U 0 0 3 lo 0.0.0.0 205.160.77.161 0.0.0.0 UG 0 0 61 eth0 Router2's info: [root@router2 log]# /sbin/ifconfig lo Link encap:Local Loopback inet addr:127.0.0.1 Bcast:127.255.255.255 Mask:255.0.0.0 UP BROADCAST LOOPBACK RUNNING MTU:3584 Metric:1 RX packets:1 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 TX packets:1 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:C0:DF:41:9C:38 inet addr:205.160.77.193 Bcast:205.160.77.223 Mask:255.255.255.224 UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1 RX packets:2364 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 TX packets:44 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 Interrupt:5 Base address:0x300 ppp-2 Link encap:Point-to-Point Protocol inet addr:205.160.77.195 P-t-P:205.160.77.177 Mask:255.255.255.224 UP POINTOPOINT RUNNING NOARP MTU:1500 Metric:1 RX packets:767 errors:1 dropped:0 overruns:0 TX packets:417 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 Router2 again: [root@router2 log]# /sbin/route -n Kernel IP routing table Destination Gateway Genmask Flags Metric Ref Use Iface 205.160.77.177 0.0.0.0 255.255.255.255 UH 0 0 4 ppp-2 205.160.77.192 0.0.0.0 255.255.255.224 U 0 0 8 eth0 205.160.77.160 0.0.0.0 255.255.255.224 U 0 0 0 ppp-2 127.0.0.0 0.0.0.0 255.0.0.0 U 0 0 0 lo 0.0.0.0 205.160.77.177 0.0.0.0 UG 0 0 1 ppp-2 --- Steven Krikstone Network Engineer Gulf Coast Internet Company [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- PLEASE read the Red Hat FAQ, Tips, Errata and the MAILING LIST ARCHIVES! http://www.redhat.com/RedHat-FAQ /RedHat-Errata /RedHat-Tips /mailing-lists To unsubscribe: mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe" as the Subject.