On Tue, 2004-10-05 at 21:57, Shu Hung (Koala) wrote: > Very strange ... It seems it just work out itself .... > After traceroute, I can ping outside IP now ... by doing nothing else > > The only thing I did is just started the machine. > But I restarted the system serval times yesterday > and didn't made things work like today > Could the router have had the mac address of another system that previously had the IP address you are using now? Have seen it take a fairly long time for the arp cache on some routers to expire at times. In the past I have had to manually clear them to get things working. -- Scot L. Harris webid@xxxxxxxxxx HTTPD Error 4004 : very old Intel cpu - insufficient processing power