Hello! Well, a bit of script debugging later and: /sbin/ifup does a: route add default gw 192.168.130.53 lo and route doesn't accept the last "lo" argument. The text is on line 149: route add default gw ${GATEWAY} ${DEVICE} There is thus an incompatibility between: # rpm -qf /sbin/route net-tools-1.46-1 # rpm -qf /sbin/ifup initscripts-3.78-1 This was my first error. Looking for the next. Best Regards! Marc -- Marc Girod Hiomo 5/1 Voice: +358-9-511 23746 Nokia Telecommunications P.O. Box 320 Mobile: +358-40-569 7954 NWS/NMS/NMS for Data 00045 NOKIA Group Fax: +358-9-511 23580 Finland [EMAIL PROTECTED] - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-net" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED]