Thank You for Your time and answer, lee: >> host1 <-> eth <-> host2 <-> ppp > using eth, just as you have a default route > on host2 using ppp0. Just an addition, on host1 I have this routing table: host1@$ /sbin/route Kernel IP routing table Destination Gateway Genmask Flags Metric Ref Use Iface 192.168.0.0 * 255.255.255.0 U 0 0 0 eth0 default 192.168.0.125 0.0.0.0 UG 0 0 0 eth0