ok. It works!!! I had to remove the gateway from the network file. thank you.
now I will try go ahead and set this box as my 'gateway' and webserver. marco
Sorry for the badly formatted quote. It arrived here like that. ;) Last line shows a bad "default route" to the host itself. That's your problem as I have guessed earlier. Start redhat-config-network and remove the "Default Gateway Address" in your eth0 profile. Apply and save the changes. If the gateway address comes back next time your start redhat-config-network again, use your favourite text editor and edit /etc/sysconfig/network. Remove the line GATEWAY=192.168.200.254 there, then run "service network restart".
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