You have an existing default route that pppd won't remove. You don't need that default route: you most likely added it when you installed because the installer misled you into believing that you needed it when you told it you had an NIC. Remove it. You're chatscript also looks garbled, but I'm guessing that it's a transcription error. -- John Hasler john@dhh.gt.org (John Hasler) Dancing Horse Hill Elmwood, WI