Guess what bill001g... I got an answer from the guy who wrote the config.. It kinda makes sense, but leaves a few questions unanswered, and I had not seen Ip Default gateway configured this way before. So methinks there is something "extra" working here. Pleae read and let me know what you thin his main switch may have set in it to work like that: "The gateway address is wrong but not for the reasons of wrong LAN. It is not in the wrong subnet. There are 2 subnets in use here. One is the WAN subnet used to interact between CLIENT's demark and us supplying the Main switch. The other is the LAN subnet that is used to interact between our main switch, additional switches and terminals. The default gateway is the port that gives access to outside internet (in other words a port where any switch forwards all packets that it doesn’t know what to do with). Typically for any switch the default gateway will be the internal IP address of a switch / router one level above which it is directly connected to. So, for our main switch this port (IP) has to be in the WAN subnet as that is the closest thing to the wider internet as far as the Metro Cell switches are concerned. In the example below 12.172.162.64 /27 is the LAN subnet and 12.127.206.170 /30 is in the WAN subnet. Now, why is this worng then? Because the correct default IP should be the gateway in the WAN subnet which will be 12.127.206.169 /30. The 12.127.206.170 is the IP assigned to the external interface of our main switch, through which it interacts with the CLIENT's demark. The 12.127.206.169 is the IP assigned to the external interface of the CLIENT's demark network element through which it interacts with the wider internet."..