>Destination Gateway Genmask Flags MSS Window irtt Iface >166.117.11.125 0.0.0.0 255.255.255.255 UH 1500 0 0 eth0 >127.0.0.0 0.0.0.0 255.0.0.0 U 3584 0 0 lo Your routing table is incorrect. If you have a class C network (I assume that given your netmask value on eth0), you should issue a: route add -net 166.117.11.0 The initialization scripts in /etc/init.d/network should take care of that. Phil.