Giving it the netmask did the trick. I feel sheepish. Hugh John Hernandez wrote: > > assuming that your workstation knows how to get to 192.168.0.4 > (presumably via arp), try this: > > route add -net 172.16.0.0 netmask 255.255.255.0 gw 192.168.0.4 > > maybe it wants the netmask argument too. >