Can someone help me with my routing table? Linux box: 172.239.21.23 Win95: 172.239.21.21 (also 172.239.21.20) Win98: 172.239.21.24 (connected to 172.239.21.20 on Win95 box) OS/2: 172.239.21.25 At this point, they can all talk to each other and Samba (default stuff) works. (ping, ftp, and sharing resources works) Telnet does not work, but one thing at a time. However, my PPP connection doesn't work correctly in Linux Mandrake 6.1 package. I connect fine, I can ping the address I get and seem to ping other addresses in that domain. However, I cannot get further than this. I send packets, but get no packets back at all. After reading books and books and How-to and FAQ and everything else I can find, it seems to come down to routing. But I don't know exactly what my routing table should look like and how to make it stay that way. A few weeks ago, I tried RH 6.0 package and I had PPP working fine, but nothing else could talk. Can someone please edit the attached routing table to make it work so I know what to force it to be? What files to edit and what to make them be? At this point, I think I can only make things worse on my own. Please include exact commands if I have to *do* things. Saying edit xxx and change it to the following lines... I can handle that. But everything else, I'm just not getting it. The FAQs, How-tos and books seem to contradict each other, or be talking about an older version of things, or another distribution. I try to follow each one's help and editing/checking files, but all I can manage to do is to make everything stop working. I'll format and reinstall if that helps and I know what to put into each of the little files to make this all work. I can use linuxconf, but netcfg gives me errors (I think it's a $DISPLAY thing is not setup, since I have to put in video drivers by hand). Here is what the routing table looks like with PPP "up": Kernel IP routing table Destination Gateway Genmask Flags Metric Ref Use Iface 0.0.0.0 172.239.21.23 255.255.255.255 UGH 0 0 0 eth0 207.58.20.1 0.0.0.0 255.255.255.255 UH 0 0 0 ppp0 172.239.21.23 0.0.0.0 255.255.255.255 UH 0 0 0 eth0 172.239.21.0 0.0.0.0 255.255.255.0 U 0 0 0 eth0 127.0.0.0 0.0.0.0 255.0.0.0 U 0 0 0 lo 0.0.0.0 207.58.20.1 0.0.0.0 UG 0 0 0 ppp0 Also, when the Linux system boots, I get this route in the table, but have to delete it so the linux box and win boxes will talk. I don't know why it's there. 0.0.0.0 127.239.21.23 0.0.0.0 UG 0 0 0 lo Here is what ifconfig looks like: eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:AA:00:60:A8:CF inet addr:172.239.21.23 Bcast:172.239.21.255 Mask:255.255.255.0 UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1 RX packets:63 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0 TX packets:63 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:1 collisions:0 txqueuelen:100 Interrupt:5 Base address:0x240 lo Link encap:Local Loopback inet addr:127.0.0.1 Mask:255.0.0.0 UP LOOPBACK RUNNING MTU:3924 Metric:1 RX packets:177 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0 TX packets:177 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0 collisions:0 txqueuelen:0 ppp0 Link encap:Point-to-Point Protocol inet addr:172.239.21.23 P-t-P:207.58.20.1 Mask:255.255.255.255 UP POINTOPOINT RUNNING NOARP MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1 RX packets:8 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0 TX packets:16 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0 collisions:0 txqueuelen:10 pppd is version 2.3.8 Here is a part of the log file: Dec 3 09:12:33 aud3 pppd[968]: Serial connection established. Dec 3 09:12:33 aud3 pppd[968]: Using interface ppp0 Dec 3 09:12:33 aud3 pppd[968]: Connect: ppp0 <--> /dev/ttyS1 Dec 3 09:12:34 aud3 pppd[968]: Unsupported protocol (0x802b) received Dec 3 09:12:34 aud3 pppd[968]: Unsupported protocol (0x8029) received Dec 3 09:12:34 aud3 pppd[968]: local IP address 172.239.21.23 Dec 3 09:12:34 aud3 pppd[968]: remote IP address 207.58.20.1 Dec 3 09:16:42 aud3 pppd[968]: Terminating on signal 15. Dec 3 09:16:43 aud3 pppd[968]: Connection terminated. Dec 3 09:16:43 aud3 pppd[968]: Connect time 4.2 minutes. Dec 3 09:16:43 aud3 pppd[968]: Sent 3736 bytes, received 309 bytes. Dec 3 09:16:44 aud3 pppd[968]: Exit. The "unsupported protocol" messages above are supposed to be ok to ignore? Audrey Beck [EMAIL PROTECTED]