Hi folks, It's possible that the original poster has been allocated a block of 32 IP addresses from someone in which case the mask of 255.255.255.224 is correct, changing from a 27-bit to 24-bit mask would cause more problems than it cures.
> Your netmask doesn't look good to me, try editing your /etc/init.d/network > (or /etc/network/interfaces, I don't know which one you are using) and > change the netmask of your localnet to 255.255.255.0 > > Destination Gateway Genmask Flags Metric Ref > > Use Iface > > locatnet * 255.255.255.224 U 0 > > 0 1 eth0 > > 127.0.0.0 * 255.0.0.0 U 0 > > 0 1 lo Cheers, Tom