[root@mike /root]# route -n Kernel IP routing table Destination Gateway Genmask Flags Metric Ref Use Iface 255.255.255.255 0.0.0.0 255.255.255.255 UH 0 0 0 eth0 192.168.0.0 0.0.0.0 255.255.255.0 U 0 0 0 eth0 127.0.0.0 0.0.0.0 255.0.0.0 U 0 0 0 lo [root@mike /root]# ifconfig eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:40:05:E1:F2:65 inet addr:192.168.0.1 Bcast:192.168.0.255 Mask:255.255.255.0 UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1 RX packets:18 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0 TX packets:16 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0 collisions:0 txqueuelen:100 Interrupt:10 Base address:0xe400 lo Link encap:Local Loopback inet addr:127.0.0.1 Mask:255.0.0.0 UP LOOPBACK RUNNING MTU:3924 Metric:1 RX packets:24 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0 TX packets:24 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0 collisions:0 txqueuelen:0 ifconfig and route -n before connection and after [root@mike /root]# route -n Kernel IP routing table Destination Gateway Genmask Flags Metric Ref Use Iface 203.134.19.47 0.0.0.0 255.255.255.255 UH 0 0 0 ppp0 255.255.255.255 0.0.0.0 255.255.255.255 UH 0 0 0 eth0 192.168.0.0 0.0.0.0 255.255.255.0 U 0 0 0 eth0 127.0.0.0 0.0.0.0 255.0.0.0 U 0 0 0 lo 0.0.0.0 203.134.19.47 0.0.0.0 UG 0 0 0 ppp0 [root@mike /root]# ifconfig eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:40:05:E1:F2:65 inet addr:192.168.0.1 Bcast:192.168.0.255 Mask:255.255.255.0 UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1 RX packets:327 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0 TX packets:291 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0 collisions:1 txqueuelen:100 Interrupt:10 Base address:0xe400 lo Link encap:Local Loopback inet addr:127.0.0.1 Mask:255.0.0.0 UP LOOPBACK RUNNING MTU:3924 Metric:1 RX packets:148 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0 TX packets:148 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0 collisions:0 txqueuelen:0 ppp0 Link encap:Point-to-Point Protocol inet addr:203.134.57.200 P-t-P:203.134.19.47 Mask:255.255.255.255 UP POINTOPOINT RUNNING NOARP MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1 RX packets:556 errors:25 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:25 TX packets:584 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0 collisions:0 txqueuelen:10 [root@mike /root]# route -n I can't use netscape and localhost at all my hosts is: 127.0.0.1 localhost.localdomain localhost 192.168.0.1 mike my host.conf: order hosts,bind multi on my /etc/sysconfig/network: NETWORKING=yes FORWARD_IPV4=true HOSTNAME="localhost.localdomain" DOMAINNAME=localdomain and internet sharing is enabled I can't use netscape on localhost at all. I upgraded to rc and everything seems to be better than the betas but I cannot get internet connect to work as user