This is confusing. Authentication with PPP is separate from other forms of authentication. If your modem is hanging up because you can't get authorization, you have a PPP problem, period. Ignore the routing/masqing/other issues until this one is resolved. Try connecting to the ISP using other boxes, OSes, what have you. Make sure the authentication method is the same (clear, chap, pap, ...) and that your credentials work. Then move on to PPP options. Who is the ISP? >>> fertch at mninter.net 09/12/01 03:33PM >>> With this machine connected to my LAN, I can get it to dial. I hear the ISP pickup and the handshake begin. However, the modem hangs up because it can't get authorization. I'm assuming that it's because when my system is trying to authenticate to the ISP it's attempting to from my LAN instead of the ISP.