<html> Yeah it is actually 192.168.5.1 which is the router.That is the default gateway. But the other machine did have 10.0.0.215 which is NOT a routerbut rather a regular linux machine > They are both the same machine, but 192.168.5.X network is > > accessible to the outside world. It had better not. 192.168/16 is a private IP space, specifically not routable in the Internet. The default gateway is the IP address of a machine on your local network that has an interface on the Internet as well. This is typically a router (or a machine behaving like a router). Essentially, any traffic for machines with addresses that are NOT on your local network go to the gateway, and from there out onto the big, bad Internet. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- - Rick Stevens, Principal Engineer rstevens@internap.com - - CDN Systems, Internap, Inc. <a href="http://www.internap.com/" target="_blank">http://www.internap.com</a> - - - - The world is coming to an end ... SAVE YOUR FILES!!! - -----Original Message----- F********************************* </html>