have recently installed rh7.3 on ibm thinkpad 380z (sirius), which in the main seems to be ok. however . . . ethernet comes up fine on sirius (192.168.0.6), but though i can ssh and scp to/form my other local net machine (polaris: 192.168.0.5), via netgear rt314 router, i can't get out to the outside world, though i can from polaris. this is true either to send mail or to ping outside hosts. a few system outputs/files are shown below, but frankly, i don't know what to look for. i did notice that the sirius kernel interface table shows flags BMRU for eth0, but on polaris the flags are BRU only. any suggestions would be appreciated. tia, dan j. daniel moylan 84 harvard ave #2 brookline, ma 02446-6202 617-232-2360 (tel) 810-454-1823 (fax) jdm@moylan.info moylan.info ################################################################### sirius:root:/proc/net [559] ping rcn.com PING rcn.com (207.172.16.170) from 192.168.0.6 : 56(84) bytes of data.